Semantic Web for the masses?

A very interesting discussion is going on in a  long thread started in the Linked Data Publc mailing list.
The main point is about what are the barriers that prevents the Semantic Web to spread and what it has to be done to make it easy for non-researcher to create, publish and use RDF data. Personally I think that - in the first place - there’s the need to define simple steps that web developers can take towards the Semantic Web.
Besides the fact that RDFa seems to be the simplest (even not problem-free) approach so far, I think that the discussion and the efforts have to focus on tools can be provided to web developers to deal with semantic information, all the rest (as we’ve seen in the early days of the Web) will come.
I would like to see soon an intuitive RDFa extension for Dreamweaver, or a decent Wordpress Plugin. Let’s start form here and then we’ll probably find even the best way to deal with the pain of publishing RDF as Linked Data on Apache. But the latter is not the first issue that currently has to be solved. IMHO, at least.