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BackgroundBeyond BloggingThe explosion in blogging over the past few years has created a cottage industry for new tools - not only for publishing blogs, but also for handling the tremendous wealth of new information being published to the Web every minute. Aggregators, search engines and matching engines are just a few of the resources we have at our disposal to corral and make sense of it all. The simple lesson we learned from blogging is that semi-structured data can be generated as quickly as normal blog posts, if the tools are available. That’s the idea behind Structured Blogging - build the tools and they will come! What we provideSimply put, we provide the tools for: Creating structured content Embedding that content in both XML (in particular RSS and ATOM) and HTML. This is transparent and doesn’t break anything. Indeed it builds on RSS and ATOM standards and it will work in all existing RSS Readers and aggregators. We can even map the structure to RDF and back. What's Next?Our plan is to obtain non-profit status in the near future. If you would like to help us work on structured blogging, or you'd like to participate in development of schemas, code, or applications, please send us an email at feedback@structuredblogging.org. What People Are Saying"Imagine someone publishes an offer to sell Ping golf clubs for $300. When they press
"submit", it's published on their blog and the offer is syndicated out into the FeedMesh.
Five golf portals are aggregating similar offers and their users quickly find the new
clubs. Someone else has .subscribed. to any Ping clubs for $400 or less and is instantly
notified about the offer being made." "My favorite example of an end-user benefit is the notion of a shared XML repository--
say a San Francisco restaurant review server. Folks could contribute to the server from
their blogs, cam phones, kiosks or other web services. Mobile carriers could then build
"Reviews" into their cell phones." "CommerceNet believes strongly in the vision of bootstrapping a more intelligent Web by
embedding semi-structured information with easy-to-author techniques like microformats.
Through our own research in developing tools for finding, sharing, indexing, and
broadcasting microformatted data, we appreciate the challenges these companies have
overcome to offer tools that will interoperate as widely as possible. We applaud their
recent decision to support the microformats.org community in all of the core areas where
commonly accepted schemas already exist, such as calendar entries, contact information,
and reviews." "GoingOn is building Structured Blogging into our hosted network platform so that our
end-users can create and support any kind of microcontent they wish and be compatible
with all standards." "Structured blogging will make it easer for companies - both large and small - to put
up job listings and openings that can be easily identified and shared across the
Internet. This is a plus for the companies looking to fill open positions. It also means
job seekers who will have access to more job listings from a wider range of companies and
organizations. We are excited to be a part of this initiative and look forward to working
with the other members." "Edgeio believe that bloggers want to use their blogs for an ever growing variety of
uses. Structured blogging will create an easy method for publishing a wide variety of
things to a blog in a way that can be understood by a search engine or crawler. This will
lead to a new generation of applications. Content at the edge of the network will use RSS
and Atom to blend with intelligence and structure in the center to enable a revolution in
the architecture of internet data and a proliferation of new applications. edgeio, to
launch in January 2006, will be playing a full part in that revolution." "Both writers and publishers will benefit from easy to use plugins, but, even more
importantly, publishers and indexers of data will be able to share information based on
the use of interoperable tools. This has the potential to be amazingly useful." |
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