Linking it all together

Part of my day was spent researching web services for semantic data extraction from text, including Zemanta, a service designed to improve the quality of blog content by making it easy to add links, images, and tags to posts.

The service provides a REST API, browser plug-ins, and server side plug-ins for major CMS systems (think Drupal). I am using the Firefox plugin right now. So if you see a bunch of ultra-linked blog posts with pretty pictures and egregious tagging, well, you know who to come after.