The W3C published a recommendation for the Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL). The motivation is to make the extraction of semantic data from XML especially from XTHML easier and stimulate by this the usage of embedded sementic data. It describes for example how to extract RDF data from XHTML files that contain data wrapped in a microformat. If you are interested the primer is a good starting point.

As New York Times reports Amazon will soon start selling their own ebook reader called Kindle that can download ebook from Amazon’s store (unfortunately in the proprietary Mobipocked format). Google will begin with the fee-based access to full versions of some books in their collection. Having these to big player in the game the likelyhood that ebooks finally take-off is pretty high.

[Via openculture]