Freebase

Lots of hype surrounding Freebase - Danny HIllis's new project that aims to tackle issues of the Semantic Web.

Tim O'Reilly's post over at O'Reilly Radar sparked a ton of controversy, and a bit of discussion of what the Semantic Web actually is, should be, etc. So much discussion that O'Reilly wrote a follow-up post.

I really enjoyed Abe Burmeister's thought-provocing post at Abstract Dynamics. Very critical and well founded, in my opinion.