New birth for Structured Blogging?
Kimbro Staken makes many correct statements and declares a new beginning for StructuredBlogging.org - but before I just completely just take back everything I just said, let me point out some cold hard facts:
1. Yes - we should all work together, and yes - the demise of PubSub will probably help alleviate the conflict between microformats and SB.org, that doen’t mean that Technorati’s juggernaut is any less juggerly. They won - that’s for sure.
2. I have a fairly pessimistic attitude towards getting any real work done on SB.org on a completely contributory basis. But God Bless Kimbro ahead of time if he can marshall some troops and get any real work done. Our experiences with ourmedia.org and the Drupal scene in general kind of convinced me that you really need pros, getting paid money, to pull off any real tech development work.
3. As Tara states “things don’t fail by accident” and I believe the perceived conflict between microformats and SB.org was due to ‘come to a head’. We (BBM) certainly don’t wanna get stuck taking sides - as all we wanna see is people take advantage of microcontent and structured content.
Kimbro argues the stated goals and ideals of SB.org. We support thise ideals and support microformats 100%. That’s the best we can do.
June 23rd, 2006 at 1:34 am
Looking at the experience you had with ourmedia.org and Drupal I totally understand your fears. Without the investment in professional developers it will be quite hard to deliver tools with the quality you need to have people really DOING Structured Blogging.
Our approach will be to start many interesting projects around Structured Blogging and put as much of the code of our projects back into the open source tools. By the feedback I received until now I’m more than confident that there will lot’s of projects and enought money to reinvest some of that into Structured Blogging. We want to build a Structured Blogging community in Germany which has people joining the community because they see you can make money with that technology. I’ve seen many open source technologies but there are not many with such a marketing power.
June 27th, 2006 at 10:04 am
I’ve had an interesting experience with microformats.org recently. I posted an example of a structured blog post (http://www.jasonkolb.com/weblog/2006/06/this_is_not_an__1.html) and tried to post it to their mailing list. It’s obviously very pertinent content and I’d like to get feedback on it (it’s also free and CCSA-licensed), but somebody apparently moderated it out. More than once. I have no idea why.