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05.17.06
Structured
Blogging Returns
 By
David A. Utter
There are ways of making the randomness of blog entries less so, and a panel at
the Syndicate Conference discussed the ways of making one's blog more accessible
to readers.
Gus
Spathis, PubSub's CEO, defined structured blogging as a way of embedding hints
about blog posts. When those posts are published, machines can understand them.
The Structured Blogging website
contains plug-ins for Wordpress and Movable Type, two popular blogging platforms.
"The structured blogging programs create really great looking posts," said Stathis.
"Behind the page the information is encoded in such a way that its relatively
simple to extract that information and leverages it somehow"
"Without structured blogging it will take some pretty sophisticated algorithms
to tell what a page is about," he said.
Now that there is a way to create structured blog posts, the next steps could
include the development of applications to leverage this embedded semantic content,
and the rise of specialized aggregators around this information.
Chad
Dickerson of Yahoo said, "When blogging first became popular and started taking
hold I thought of it as a lightweight content management system."
Now with the rise of structured blogging and micro-formats this is becoming even
more the case. Yahoo's latest service, Yahoo!
Tech, uses structured data. Viewing the source for the site shows how Yahoo
is using it.
"Getting started on micro-formats is kind of a 'do it' - view source kind of thing,"
he said. "It would be foolish of us to publish things in micro-format and not
let other people use it."
- WebProNews editor Mike McDonald commented in a note to us that these efforts
are all about content organization. In recapping the session, he said the ability
to easily classify this information become extremely important, when one is in
an environment where anybody anywhere is apt to be writing about anything at anytime.
About the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. |
