Microformats and Structured Blogging BoF
Alex Barnett has posted some images from Mix06 - including this one of me, promoting the BoF we did today.
Its funny how easy it is to stand out at a straight show like this. Ewan Spence had his kilt on again and I walked around, holding this sign, letting people when and where to go to.
I was using this program called ‘Mix Meet’ - to invite folks to the BoF, but then the code went down and we had to go analog.
The meeting went great.
Joshua Allen got us the ‘food court’ (by talking to two different sets of security forces) only to find out - that there was aq THIRD set of ‘carabinieri’ - who kicked us out! So we had to end our meeting early - just as it was getting going.
Tantek talked about microformats and I introduced folks to the notion of our StructuredBlogging initiative.
So here we were in the food court, yelling to be heard, talking about ‘resolving schema disagreements’ and how the free marketplace will decide - not us. I tried to emphasize that SB.org is about showing off end-user benefits and delivering code - like our plug-ins for Wordpress or Moveable Type.
As the cops broke up our meeting, I pleaded to “go forth and spread to the wind the word of the distributed mesh of microcontent. Take the word to the masses underground - go bring the revolution to the people!” It felt like the 60’s.
March 22nd, 2006 at 8:38 pm
That’s the Marc Canter I used to know!
March 22nd, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Consistently pushing the envelope of the area he’s involved in. The problem for me is, I can’t really follow what he’s saying, but that’s really due to my own ignorance. But that’s cool anyway; keep on pushing!
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:15 am
uF & SB BoF? Wow, you are doing so many things *right*
“As the cops broke up our meeting…” - classic!
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Marc, thanks for doing such a great job of fighting to make sure that people understand that microformats and StructuredBlogging are complimentary ideas not competitive ideas. Structured Blogging is an activity, not a format and the focus of the StructuredBlogging.org site is to show people the benefit of doing Structured Blogging (whatever formats they may be using) and to deliver tools to make it easy for them to do it (whatever formats they may need.) Those who think there is some “conflict” between Structured Blogging and “microformats” or any other format simply don’t understand what they are talking about. Thanks for helping to educate them.
bob wyman
March 25th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
[…] My 6 predictions on microformats Joshua Allen helped organize the microformats and structured blogging unofficial session at Mix this week with Marc Canter and Tantek. Joshua has posted 6 predictions on the topic of microformats that are worth a read (thanks to Tommy for the pointer). FWIW (inspired by Joshua) here are my six predictions on the topic: 2006 will be a hot year for microformats, but 2007 will be even hotter. Most Microsoftees will not have heard of microformats nor know what they are by the end of 2006. But those Microsoftees that need to know, will. The OPML freaks will embrace microformats. Those who said structured blogging wouldn’t take off will come around as they realize that using microformats in blogs is structured blogging Some people will say microformats won’t take off, no matter what New microformat-based business will blossom over the next two years - Tags (did you know these were microformats?): microformats structuredblogging opml web tech […]
March 29th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
And not to put a sledgehammer to the point, but yet again I have a confernece where people can ID me from across the room and shout “Ewan! when they spot the kilt and I either need to fit their fac in ten seconds or get a glance at the namebadge (or Hawaiian shirt) because they obviously know me…
…all about the brand…
March 31st, 2006 at 9:13 pm
[…] Microformats Podcast Microformats Podcast Here’s a great podcast for you. All about microformats… Joining me are Tantek Çelik, Dan Connolly and Rohit Khare. I think it’s safe to say these guys know a thing or two about the web and microformats. As usual, show notes below and link to download below. Enjoy. Background Last week I met with Tantek Çelik and the Mix06 event in Las Vegas where he, Marc Canter and Joshua Allen organized a Structured Blogging and Microformats ‘birds of a feather’ non-official event after the main sessions were over. Tantek and I met up the next day and agreed we should get a podcast together on the topic of microformats. I asked him to invite a couple of others along for the call and he arranged for Dan Connolly and Rohit Khare to were kind enough to join us, two people who have also been intimately involved with the development of this exciting new area of microformats. The Guests Tantek Çelik is CTO at Technorati. Prior to his current role, Tantek was representative to the W3C for Microsoft where he also helped lead the development of Internet Explorer for Macintosh. He also spent four year at Apple and has been instrumental (along with others) in making microformats what is today. Dan Connolly, is Technical Staff at W3C, where he edited the HTML 2.0 specification with Tim Berners-Lee, was chair of the W3C Working Group that produced HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 and collaborated with Jon Bosak to form the W3C XML Working Group and produce the W3C XML 1.0 Recommendation. Dan is also very involved with the W3C’s Semantic Web initiatives (RDF, OWL and SPARQL). Rohit Khare, is Director of CommerceNet Labs, a non-profit investigating and promoting decentralized electronic commerce. Rohit started KnowNow in 2000 after working at the W3C during the 90’s and is today working with the microformats folks as part of his work at CommereNet Labs. Huge thanks to Tantek, Dan and Rohit for their time. So, on to the podcast (under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License)… Download Microformats Podcast - (51 mins, .mp3, 12mb) Show Notes Introduction What are microformats and history? (5:30) The ‘we’ in microformats: microformats community, wiki, mailing lists (10:30) Why bother? What’s in it for whom? What do we have to gain with microformats? (13:30) Less effort, more benefits Scenarios - the soccer season (21:00) The schema design philosophy - Microformats are based on real world examples (26:50) The evolution of microformats (30:00) If there a hundred microformats, something has gone wrong Widely adopted Link microformats: (rel tag). Compound microformats: hCard implementations (sharing contact info) and hCalendar implementations (sharing schedules) Experimentation - Remixed microformats: hReview and Listing examples Making the simple things easy Interop with other formats (34:00) Ray Ozzie’s Live Clip demo (screencasts) and microformats - the cut and paste (semantic) web (37:00) Microformats-REST Pasting ‘live’ and RSS-enabled network pipe system Tantek’s Updates - Live syndication and packaging of data formats Getting the semantic web. What does it mean? What does it enable? (46:00) Microformats - an onramp onto the semantic web future Final thoughts (48:30) End (51:00) - Find out more about microformats: microformats community and wiki join the microformats mailing lists - My podcast archive My microformats posts - Tags: microformats, semantic-web, technology, web, web 2.0 Filed Under: Web, Tech, Web 2.0, Mix06, microformats […]
May 23rd, 2006 at 11:19 am
i try to find something at google.com and take it on your site…thanks
November 12th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
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