I think these ideas would get a lot more traction if they were presented in terms of something like "Semantic REST" (S-REST?). Basically, I'm thinking that the

I think these ideas would get a lot more traction if they were presented in terms of something like "Semantic REST" (S-REST?). Basically, I'm thinking that the ultimate benefit to having somewhat standardized interactions with our web APIs (with more included metadata) is that they can be mined, discovered, and manipulated intelligently by algorithms. It helps people, sure, but just like using contact microformats helps give the user a phone number they can click to call, it's equally if not more important that it gives a crawler an easy way to say "hey look, a phone number!" This is the main criticism I have with DHHs comments on hypermedia: they seem to focus too much on the human consumer (and often the programmer) and not enough on the algorithmic potential.