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]]> By: Bob Wyman http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/01/microformats-a-gross-hack#comment-30834 Bob Wyman Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:51:02 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/01/microformats-a-gross-hack#comment-30834 I think Phil overstates matters when he says: "throwing away your feed isn't being seriously considered by the microformats people."... One thing we must remember is that Technorati, a major supporter of "microformats," relies on reading web pages not feeds when gathering blog data. Technorati seems to use feeds as nothing more than indicators of changes to pages. They index the full content of the page even if you only put a summary in your feed -- and they claim this is a "good" thing that gives them competitive advantage over those systems that don't. Thus, they appear to view it as to their advantage if they can convince folk to publish data in HTML pages that *does not* appear in their feeds. bob wyman I think Phil overstates matters when he says: “throwing away your feed isn’t being seriously considered by the microformats people.”… One thing we must remember is that Technorati, a major supporter of “microformats,” relies on reading web pages not feeds when gathering blog data. Technorati seems to use feeds as nothing more than indicators of changes to pages. They index the full content of the page even if you only put a summary in your feed — and they claim this is a “good” thing that gives them competitive advantage over those systems that don’t. Thus, they appear to view it as to their advantage if they can convince folk to publish data in HTML pages that *does not* appear in their feeds.

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]]> By: Phillip Pearson http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/01/microformats-a-gross-hack#comment-30576 Phillip Pearson Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:02:37 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/01/microformats-a-gross-hack#comment-30576 I think Dare is forgetting that most microformats have nothing to do with the XHTML syndication thing - they're just about marking up stuff like reviews, license references, events, and tags. I just posted this comment on his blog: What Joe said -- the concept of making your homepage machine-readable and throwing away your feed isn't being seriously considered by the microformats people. It's just one of those "hey, cool, look what this could enable if we wanted to do something totally weird" things. Most microformats coexist nicely with feeds. Look at what we're doing with the Structured Blogging plugins (structuredblogging.org), for example. If you publish a book review, it is marked up in the blog's HTML pages using hReview class attributes, and the exact same HTML gets published in the feeds. I think Dare is forgetting that most microformats have nothing to do with the XHTML syndication thing - they’re just about marking up stuff like reviews, license references, events, and tags.

I just posted this comment on his blog:

What Joe said — the concept of making your homepage machine-readable and throwing away your feed isn’t being seriously considered by the microformats people. It’s just one of those “hey, cool, look what this could enable if we wanted to do something totally weird” things.

Most microformats coexist nicely with feeds. Look at what we’re doing with the Structured Blogging plugins (structuredblogging.org), for example. If you publish a book review, it is marked up in the blog’s HTML pages using hReview class attributes, and the exact same HTML gets published in the feeds.

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