Emergent Markup Languages..
The ebullient and inspiring Don Park puts the semantic back into the semantic web. Mark things up willy-nilly and make sense of them afterwards.
<vegetable>tomato</vegetable>
imho, this is closer to how people really think, to natural human behavior. Biomimicry. These days we have more technology to automatically tag our spewed text and weave the lexical analysis that makes sense of the tags.
Read Don's introduction to Emergent Markup Languages, the comment thread, and XML maestro Sean McGrath's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Manuals.
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