I do think it’s contrasting from a concept-point-of-view, not from the executional point of view. On that level, it certainly needs a relationship, content needs to be understood, but within the social graph, giving new meanings and directions to the content. A kind of social contextual enhancement.

Actually several of the most popular blogs in the mexican blogosphere have languished and essentially died, although their authors are prolific and popular Twitter users now. I guess this illustrates the point.

I’ ve written a few posts about this, unfortunately all of them in spanish

Regards

Synaptic/semantic combinations are what make Google number one in search. As you pointed out, Zemantic, with its Natural Language Processing (which you can get open code and free info on via google) is a good 1st gen example of semantic web which uses tech to make synaptic links via semantic process.

More tools in both areas, of course, just add choice of tools, and you can use what is best depending on the job at hand, and enjoy the expanded ecosystem.

I recognize this a lot, but I solved using PostRank to filter some of the feeds. You got to postrank.com, enter the feed you want to filter, see what would be filtered out if you ask for only good posts, great posts og best posts – and subscribe to the one you’d like.

The rating of each post is based on how many comments, tweets, diggs, delicious-links etc have been made about that post. I works surprisingly well.