I always hit a mental wall when I think about microformats. I’ve just been re-reading Charlene Li’s “Structured blogging – an introduction and the implications” and Alf Eaton’s “About reviews and microformats” and I just can’t get over the fact that...

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Someone posted to the rdf-dev mailing list the other day, saying FOAF had had its chance to do any good, and had failed. Time to close up shop. He missed the point. FOAF is a data format. It’s the surrounding application infrastructure which needs a kick up the arse, not the format that needs killing. As of right now, I can’t give you one good example (off the top of my head) of a...

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There just isn’t any. If there is, I’d really like someone to point it out to me. If you’re providing a review of something, it might be a one-off, in which case this kind of thing isn’t going to be very important, as you’d hope people would read (or skip) the whole thing, but if you’re regularly producing reviews (as on

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Ha! That’ll teach me to not read around the subject! Marc has already written about the problems peopleaggregator has been having in picking up who is the main “Person” in a FOAF file. Of course, I already provide dc:creator and foaf:maker properties to associate my “Person” with the FOAF document, so there sh...

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Hooray! Danny finds the FOAF Topic Finder by the FOAF-tastic Morten Frederiksen. Like I commented on his site: I found this about two weeks ago, lost it, and have been meaning to look for it since! This is probably the al...

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Incidentally, Leigh’s intention for adding other voacabularies to the FAM2 seems pretty much the same as mine did: I think for the first iteration I’ll simply throw away properties the FOAF-a-Matic doesn’t understand. Then progressively expand the breadth of FOAF data th...

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