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IWMW 2006 postscript

08 July, 2006 - 259 words
I gave two seminar talks at IWMW 2006, “Sharing and Exploring Team Knowledge with Wikis” and “Exposing yourself on the web with microformats!” (slides for both to come). These were my first time doing any kind of public speaking since I left school, so I mana...

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Profiles (and thus RDF) from University of Bath Person Finder

08 June, 2006 - 124 words
Work’s staff and student directory has just had an overhaul, and I finally got the change in to add the hCard profile to the <head> of the page. This means that because the page is marked up with the hCard microformat, you can pass a page like mine to a ...

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Microformat authoring complexity and validation

20 April, 2006 - 233 words
There’s a little bit going around at the moment about microformat validation; for example Norm Walsh on Validating microformats, Bill de hÓra thinks it matters Not a whit and the mailing list is going apeshit. Is it true? Is validation not important...

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Shared vocabularies on the web

20 April, 2006 - 80 words
Ryan King says: See, one of the problems with XML-on-the-web are the dialects. See Tantek’s Tower of Babel Problem for more explanation. I know I might be sounding a bit ideal...

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My first conference conflict!

06 March, 2006 - 119 words
I really really wanted to go to @Media 2006 (15th-16th June, upcoming), having missed it last year, but I’ve been asked to talk at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006 (14th-...

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Atom extensions and FOAF

03 March, 2006 - 179 words
James Snell has posted a new Internet Draft for expanding the details of an atom:author called Atom Syndication Format Person Extensions. In it he gives examples of embedding details with hCard like so: <pe:profile type="xhtm...

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Structured Blogging opens up

08 January, 2006 - 346 words
OK so this is old news because I’ve not been the blogging mood, but I think it’s important enough to cover anyway. In November 2005 I posted that: by far the weakest point of structuredblogging, head and shoulders above any technical detail, is the total lack of any obvious update since April 2005. To all intents and purposes, the site and project look dead from the o...

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hAtom questions

14 December, 2005 - 61 words
In 2002 Mark Pilgrim wrote Syndication is not publication. In that piece he voices a concern that I’ve had before about microformats:

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Microformats (ab)used

28 November, 2005 - 123 words
The output from Person Finder, the University of Bath‘s staff and student directory is now marked up with hCard. For example, check out my entry. The amount of ...

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Microformats understood

28 November, 2005 - 41 words
I now understand Microformats. I had thought that they didn’t want to boil the ocean, but, after spending a few weeks on the microformats mailing list, it seems like actually, they do. Good luck.

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