Re: [uf-discuss] Microformat for dictionary/thesaurus ... + research

2005-11-30 Thread Kevin Marks
Certainly worth gathering examples. For my boys' wordlists, I wrote a scraper that went to merriam-webster, looked up a list of words, and created a XOXO approximation from their markup: table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=400 border=0 tr td align=left One entry

Re: [uf-discuss] URI schemes vs. visible data (was Re: communications log, tel microformat?)

2005-11-30 Thread Kevin Marks
On Nov 29, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Authors aren't publishing links to geo and address information. They're publishing *visible text* of geo and address information. So the easiest thing to do, for the author, is to leave it as visible text. I can imagine, that for geo or addr

Re: Never underestimate the usefulness of human-readable data. (was Re: [uf-discuss] Non-HTTP/HTML microformats)

2005-12-01 Thread Kevin Marks
On Nov 30, 2005, at 11:14 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: On 11/30/05 4:55 PM, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never underestimate the usefulness of human-readable data. Ryan, this is an excellent point, and I feel like something that needs to be added to that other blog-post-in-progress based

Re: [uf-discuss] rel-tag for hierarchical categories

2005-12-02 Thread Kevin Marks
On Dec 2, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Benjamin Carlyle wrote: I'm wanting to use tags as part of my blog entry posts, but I don't like explicit tagging. I just want a single link at the bottom of each blog entry to point to its category, and for that to be interpreted as one or more tags. Now,

Re: [uf-discuss] The need for a Trackback microformat?

2005-12-05 Thread Kevin Marks
OK, this brings us to the heart of Podcasting. For much discussion, see the last two videos with rel=enclosure on my blog... On Dec 3, 2005, at 1:51 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: On 12/3/05, Chris Messina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/05, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't

Re: [uf-discuss] hAtom draft - class=title

2005-12-31 Thread Kevin Marks
On Dec 27, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: This means working deliberately to avoid the two cardinal sins that namespaces typical both enable and encourage: 1. The same term is used to mean two different things 2. Two terms are used to mean the same things Indeed. In fact this is one

[uf-discuss] rel-bookmark [was entry permalink in hatom

2006-01-04 Thread Kevin Marks
On Jan 4, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: On 1/4/06 1:52 PM, David Janes -- BlogMatrix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tantek Çelik wrote: An explanation is different from a specification. I would welcome a tutorial on rel-bookmark on microformats.org -- let's just be very clear that it

Re: [uf-discuss] hReview feedback

2006-01-26 Thread Kevin Marks
On Jan 23, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Ryan King wrote: I don't know how the Structured Blogging wordpress plugin does this (or whether it allow it at all), but in hReview you can do tagged ratings. So, in your example: a href=http://wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberPunk_Visuals; Degree of CyberPunk Visuals:

Re: [uf-discuss] Microsummaries in Firefox

2006-03-21 Thread Kevin Marks
On Mar 21, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Ryan King wrote: On Mar 21, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Chris Messina wrote: The definition: A microsummary is a short compilation of the most important information on a web page, f.e. the ticker symbol and price for a stock quote page. TWX: 17.07 A

Re: [uf-discuss] Plants Microformat

2006-03-24 Thread Kevin Marks
On Mar 24, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Scott Reynen wrote: On Mar 24, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: What do you mean by plants? Garden plants? Plants as studied by botanists? Plant-material, such as cut flowers, or planks of timber? Is there really any ambiguity here? The former two are

Re: [uf-discuss] Plants Microformat

2006-03-24 Thread Kevin Marks
On Mar 24, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Ryan King wrote: Let's take a step back and think about whether a microformat for plants is worthwhile– Microformats are solutions to common problems, which means they often end up being low hanging fruit. That doesn't mean, however, that all low-hanging-fruit

Re: [uf-discuss] MicroID - Identity in a shade of microformat

2006-03-27 Thread Kevin Marks
On Mar 27, 2006, at 3:40 PM, jer wrote: Boy, once Doc gets a hold of something... I was going to send out a little note here asking for some feedback, but it's gone full circle already :) Anyway, MicroID isn't exactly a microformat all by itself but it can be expressed in conjunction with

Re: [uf-discuss] Google at it again

2006-04-13 Thread Kevin Marks
On Apr 12, 2006, at 11:27 PM, Sam Sethi wrote: So who's the new Google ;-) depends who you ask: http://www.google.com/searchq=%22is+the+new+google%22 says yahoo http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=%22is+the+new+google%22 says 37 signals or maybe wikipedia

Re: [uf-discuss] Chat microformat/podcast transcript

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin Marks
On Apr 14, 2006, at 12:42 AM, Chris Messina wrote: I disagree, but then I've always been a fan of DLs. The problem that I see with only using q cite and bq is that they're ways of loosely pairing a speaker and what they've said. I don't know of any way to closely couple the two. At least with

Re: Language Maps [was RE: [uf-discuss] Microformats vs XML]

2006-05-02 Thread Kevin Marks
On May 1, 2006, at 5:59 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: The problem with AppleScript is that it is actually not that readable/writable (even in English *by* native English readers). AppleScript has a superficial resemblance/reuse of English terms which makes it look a lot easier than it actually is

Re: [uf-discuss] microformats search and pinging

2006-06-01 Thread Kevin Marks
On May 31, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Scott Reynen wrote: On May 31, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: There are some indexers of specific microformats right now (e.g. Reevoo and Kritx both index hReviews), but no general microformats search engine. Hmm... I'm pretty sure I was indexing

Re: [uf-discuss] microformats search and pinging

2006-06-01 Thread Kevin Marks
On Jun 1, 2006, at 8:22 AM, Scott Reynen wrote: On Jun 1, 2006, at 1:00 AM, Kevin Marks wrote: On May 31, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Scott Reynen wrote: On May 31, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: There are some indexers of specific microformats right now (e.g. Reevoo and Kritx both index

Re: [uf-discuss] pingerati notes

2006-06-04 Thread Kevin Marks
On Jun 4, 2006, at 2:21 AM, Mark Mansour wrote: I have to say great job on the pingerati digester and multiplexer! Just a couple of administrative items - I cant get reach events.pingerati.com/ping/ or review.* as noted on the about page (I stopped trying after these two failed) Oops, that

Re: [uf-discuss] LinkedIn and Microformats

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin Marks
On Jun 13, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Chris Messina wrote: It would be interesting if the Pingerati infrastructure offered a validation service -- or revealed mal-formed microformats. A validator is orthogonal to pingerati, but if someone puts one togtether I'll happily feed it pings. Similarly

Re: [uf-discuss] media file example of hAtom

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin Marks
rel-enclosure is deliberately limited, so that it can be used as part of a wider format. The issue of alternative representations seems like a common one for media. At the HTML level rel=alternate is used for this. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.3 If you are listing

Re: [uf-discuss] media file example of hAtom

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin Marks
Great, David - I'll add mine. On Jun 14, 2006, at 2:36 AM, David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote: Strangely enough!: http://microformats.org/wiki/alternates-brainstorming http://microformats.org/wiki/alternates-examples Regards, etc... David Kevin Marks wrote: rel-enclosure is deliberately limited

Re: [uf-discuss] Very basic question that is not in the FAQ

2006-06-22 Thread Kevin Marks
On Jun 22, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Scott Reynen wrote: On Jun 22, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Hamper compared to what? When I'm telling someone about microformats and they express concern that Technorati might try to control microformats as Microsoft or Google has been feared trying

Re: [uf-discuss] Must Ignore vs. Microformats

2006-07-19 Thread Kevin Marks
On Jul 19, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: On 7/19/06 10:34 AM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One good thing about XML, IMO, is that for certain simple markups based on XML, it's easier for a beginner-level or intermediate-level developer to write a parser for it (as

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Exploratory discussion: content rating

2006-07-27 Thread Kevin Marks
On Jul 27, 2006, at 10:05 AM, Scott Reynen wrote: I didn't mean to suggest you weren't following the process. I was just trying to point out the humorous situation I was imagining, in which someone walks by, sees you looking at a porn site, and then you turn around and try in vain to explain

Re: [uf-discuss] AJAX Pages and Microformats.

2006-08-08 Thread Kevin Marks
On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:40 AM, Pedro Custódio wrote: Hi everyone! I'm kind of new into the microformats world, so this doubt can have actually been answered before, if so please excuse me! ;) How do you take advantage of microformats on pages built using ajax technology, I mean pages, which

[uf-discuss] Apple open sources their iCal Server

2006-08-09 Thread Kevin Marks
This looks interesting - I was chatting to some of Apple's server team last night at the webkit meetup. Begin forwarded message: From: Peter Herndon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: August 9, 2006 12:35:11 PM PDT To: twisted-web@twistedmatrix.com Subject: [Twisted-web] Apple using Twisted in OS 10.5

Re: [uf-discuss] hAtom implementation questions

2006-09-12 Thread Kevin Marks
I'd say both points are arguable. From my point of view, tags should be inside the post content, as otherwise they may be dropped from the feed. Likewise, Stephanie's other-language summaries are currently not in her Atom feed, which makes it less useful, as I find the English summaries handy

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: Lunar/ Mars co-ordinates (like geo)

2006-09-18 Thread Kevin Marks
On Sep 18, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: - do we really need a /different/ microformat for every body being described? is there a way to add a third value for type (or body, or something more appropriate) to geo without breaking exiting spec / rules or muddying things up too much? I

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: Lunar/ Mars co-ordinates (like geo)

2006-09-19 Thread Kevin Marks
On Sep 18, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes How about adding a container around the geo that specifies the planet (or geoid, if you want to get extra fussy. You can say it defaults to WSGS-84, which is backwards

Re: [uf-discuss] i-names and hcard

2006-09-19 Thread Kevin Marks
are a good way to do it :)) On 9/19/06, Kevin Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 19, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Sebastian Küpers wrote: http://xri.net/=sebastian/+hcard (just try this url in your browser) at the moment it redirects you to my claimID account. but I can now change it to my blog

Re: [uf-discuss] A bug in the Technorati's events exporting tool

2006-09-26 Thread Kevin Marks
On Sep 26, 2006, at 5:44 AM, Brian Suda wrote: I won't go too much technical detail on the discuss list, you can email me off list for a complete explaination and how the W3C defines the order of where to look for language encodings, etc. Our own Mark Pilgrim wrote a good explanation of

Re: [uf-discuss] geo - accuracy of coordinates

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin Marks
Andy, you're missing the point. A bare lat-long pair is not always helpful. If that's all you have, you can't really display a useful map. The existing mapping tools tend to use product-specific ways of specifying the degree of zoom needed, to distinguish between the right side of my desk,

Re: [uf-discuss] geo - accuracy of coordinates

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin Marks
On Oct 2, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Michael MD wrote: Not really, if it's a large city... Consider Birmingham, England, whose centre is far from being equidistant to all points on its boundary - it's in Ladywood on this map: http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/wards GeoRSS uses a radius element,

Re: [uf-discuss] geo - accuracy of coordinates

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin Marks
On Oct 2, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Kevin Marks wrote: On Oct 2, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Chris Casciano wrote: You could outline any territory as a series of geos if the need ever arose. But I'm still not clear how we've gotten here. If I want to say something is in Ireland, or Mexico City or somewhere

Re: History Microformat (was Re: [uf-discuss] Dated currency examples?)

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin Marks
On Sep 25, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Jeremy Boggs wrote: i would be very interested in helping to explore a history microformat. In my spare time, I've been collecting examples of history timelines, after discussions a few months ago on this list about the inability of using hCalendar to mark up

[uf-discuss] Geographic polygons [was geo - accuracy of coordinates

2006-10-03 Thread Kevin Marks
On Oct 3, 2006, at 1:12 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Casciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Totally ignored the point I was trying to make... and that is that describing a border - of any shape - by the use of a collection of geo coords (at whatever precision) is

Re: [uf-discuss] geo - accuracy of coordinates

2006-10-03 Thread Kevin Marks
You'll need a Flash-compatible browser - their geotagging is Flash-based at the moment. (we'd better get HTML-defining and evangelising to convert our Flickr friends) On Oct 3, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations

2006-10-19 Thread Kevin Marks
On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:09 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: That's 399 characters increased to 860 (excluding indentation); over double. when gzipped (with indentation) I get 308 bytes vs 498 ration 1.62 Stripping out the indentation and CRs and using more compact forms of the mf markup I get tr

Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations

2006-10-19 Thread Kevin Marks
On Oct 19, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes using more compact forms of the mf markup I get Other than the 20061103T213000Z format for dates, what did you change? I removed a redundant 'title'. gzipped I get 293

Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations

2006-10-19 Thread Kevin Marks
On Oct 19, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In itself, it's not significant, as it is well under a packet size, as I said, and so will not affect download time. Why is packet size relevant? The page concerned has many - and some have dozens - of table rows in similar format. Good!

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats vs. CalDAV?

2006-10-19 Thread Kevin Marks
On Oct 19, 2006, at 8:18 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: The good news is Apple in on our board, which means CalDAV would be the standard we'd employ. CalDEV: http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/ Now, it's my understanding that one of the benefits of Microformats is that it co-exists nicely

Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations (or how to choose)

2006-10-21 Thread Kevin Marks
On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:57 PM, Christopher Rines wrote: In my opinion amount is a really difficult one to abbreviate (or any measure for that matter) as it can be used to describe a lot of other things for which there is not yet a microformat but cur (for currency) is interesting as just off

Re: [uf-discuss] RE: Disconnect between hCard and RFC 2426 (vCard specification)?

2006-10-23 Thread Kevin Marks
On Oct 23, 2006, at 5:30 AM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: 1:1 means that the field names are identical in each, not that the use-case will always be the same. (Incidentally, I have seen vCards made for businesses before...) Quite - microformats are based on observing usage, not on theory.

[uf-discuss] Visible data and key+value pairs

2006-10-26 Thread Kevin Marks
I had a discussion about this in Shelley Powers' blog comments a while back: http://just.shelleypowers.com/technology/ajax-myth-busting/#comment638 what I said then was: What is data and what is metadata depends on the content and the context. If you have a series of key/value pairs where

[uf-discuss] Happy halloween

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin Marks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmarks/285384771/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmarks/285384695/ ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss

[uf-discuss] Fwd: Timeline and microformats

2006-11-04 Thread Kevin Marks
seen http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ ? I contacted the author - what's the best existing 'hCalendar to JSON' tool? Begin forwarded message: From: David Huynh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 3, 2006 6:54:57 AM PST To: Kevin Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Timeline and microformats

Re: [uf-discuss] Bug in rel-lint bookmarklet

2006-11-29 Thread Kevin Marks
Andy, what do you mean by 'submitted the page to Technorati' ? By the look of it, you pinged us as if it were a blog url. We indexed it on 2006-11-25 01:43:05 PST, and didn't find any blog posts in it. As it is a non-blog page, you should submit it via Pingerati http://pingerati.net and it

Re: [uf-discuss] simple rss question

2006-12-01 Thread Kevin Marks
If the page is for a person, then the RSS is an alternative. Use the Feed autodiscovery syntax makes sense: http://feedautodiscovery.org/doku.php but you could apply it to an a href link instead of a link one, eg a href rel=alternate me type=application/rss+xml title=RSS feed of Ted Drake

[uf-discuss] Re: [video_vertigo] Re: [videoblogging] Media RSS what?

2006-12-05 Thread Kevin Marks
PROTECTED] Cc: Kevin Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Eric Lunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon Dec 04 20:06:33 2006 Subject: Re: [video_vertigo] Re: [videoblogging] Media RSS what? Yeah, I like as andreas points

Re: [uf-discuss] rel=muse implies romantic relationship?

2006-12-10 Thread Kevin Marks
On Dec 10, 2006, at 6:08 PM, Chris Messina wrote: And despite my attempts to explain, as you all have, the origins of the romantic sense of the term, Tara never gave me the benefit of the doubt, hence the semantic change. ;) So yes, Tantek, a FAQ entry would certainly be appreciated. Have a

Re: [uf-discuss] rel=tag

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Marks
On Jan 3, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Nick Peters wrote: Seeing the tag implementation on Operator has made me question the existing tagging standard. With wordpress you may get something like ?cat=13 for a tag or something that may not even be the intended tag at all. Yes, Wordpress abuses the

Re: Scope of tags (Was: [uf-discuss] rel=nsfw)

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Marks
On Jan 3, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: On: http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag#Abstract By adding rel=tag to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink is an author-designated tag (or keyword/subject) for the current page.

Re: [uf-discuss] rel=tag

2007-01-07 Thread Kevin Marks
On Jan 5, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: Except rel-tag explicitly uses the last part of the URL path, and should ignore query parameters and fragment identifiers[1] i.e. http://example.com/tags?tag=/fish = tags So the workaround at:

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats, WebApps 1.0 and UI widgets in browsers

2007-02-01 Thread Kevin Marks
On Jan 31, 2007, at 11:25 PM, Karl Dubost wrote: At first, I say “cool, very cool!”. Then, taking a step back, I think what about the documents which have been created for the last 15 years before microformats effort existed. These documents contain class names which are probably and

Re: [advocacy] Contacting Blogger (was Re: [uf-discuss] Rel-tag issues...)

2007-02-11 Thread Kevin Marks
On Feb 8, 2007, at 3:54 AM, Ben Buchanan wrote: The better approach is to lobby the software/server folks to fix their implementation, Right. On this point, does anyone have a contact at Blogger? Support emails do not get individual replies so we need someone to contact a real live

Re: [uf-discuss] Rel-tag issues, i can't create my own tagspace!

2007-02-11 Thread Kevin Marks
On Feb 8, 2007, at 7:10 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Suda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes --- i agree with all of this, and that is why microformats do not force you to use your own tagspace. There are plenty of sites that can easily be used as tagspaces[1]

Re: [advocacy] Contacting Blogger (was Re: [uf-discuss] Rel-tag issues...)

2007-02-11 Thread Kevin Marks
On Feb 11, 2007, at 7:25 PM, Ben Buchanan wrote: Right. On this point, does anyone have a contact at Blogger? Support emails do not get individual replies so we need someone to contact a real live human. I have contacts there, yes. [snip] Can you show me an example of them getting it

Re: [uf-discuss] OpenID

2007-02-21 Thread Kevin Marks
On Feb 20, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Thom Shannon wrote: I was thinking there should be a way to have your OpenID on other profiles that can easily be consumed, allowing someone to see you on social network A and add you on their social network B based on you using the same OpenID. that's where UID

Re: [uf-discuss] OpenID

2007-02-21 Thread Kevin Marks
I disagree, it being a URL is a good thing. I have http:/ kevinmarks.com as an openid URL with microformats attached to it (based on Chris Messina's here): http://factoryjoe.com/hcard.html Should I be asserting his urls as a uid? On Feb 21, 2007, at 2:19 AM, Thom Shannon wrote: I was

[uf-discuss] XOXO to JSON and back

2007-02-21 Thread Kevin Marks
A preliminary go at a bidirectional XOXO to JSON service: http://kevinmarks.com/cgi-bin/xoxotojson.py?url=http://kevinmarks.com and back again: http://kevinmarks.com/cgi-bin/jsontoxoxo.py?url=http%3A// kevinmarks.com/cgi-bin/xoxotojson.py%3Furl%3Dhttp%3A//kevinmarks.com change the url

Re: [uf-discuss] rel-tag title as tag value (Was: Should microformat features (like rel-tag) have explicit scope?)

2007-02-24 Thread Kevin Marks
On Feb 24, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Mike Kaply wrote: Was there a reason in the original creation of rel-tag that no one thought to allow title to specify the tagname? Yes, the idea was to make it more resilient against gaming by requiring the URL to embody the tag. This followed existing

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformat tools bogosity test

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Marks
On Mar 5, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: Thought this might be useful: http://dannyayers.com/misc/microformats/soupdragon http://epeus.blogspot.com/2007/03/hot-news-people-lie.html Or, as we say round here, 'not 80%' ___

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformat tools bogosity test

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Marks
On Mar 7, 2007, at 1:51 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: There I disagree - as far as the theory goes, for microformats the problem is effectively solved. The notion of profile URIs has gone through the community process, and there's even a microformat to support them: XMDP. It's been accepted that each

Re: [uf-discuss] Numbers of Microformats in the Wild?

2007-04-12 Thread Kevin Marks
On Apr 12, 2007, at 8:06 AM, Kevin Lawver wrote: I'm presenting on microformats at Web 2.0 Expo (well, hopefully, if they can move me back to my original time) next week, and would love to have more examples of folks using microformats as APIs. I ungraciously stole an idea I saw on the

Re: [uf-discuss] Fwd: Twitter Is Now Even More Geeky

2007-05-13 Thread Kevin Marks
On May 13, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Chris Messina wrote: XFN. All of the side bars use [rel=contact]. -ryan So yeah, it's hAtom + hCard + XFN. Pretty good, especially since we haven't seen too much hAtom pickup outside of a few WordPress blogs. Also rel=me on the URL links in personal pages,

Re: [uf-discuss] rel-tag links with #

2007-08-03 Thread Kevin Marks
On Aug 3, 2007 12:23 PM, Taylor Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In using hAtom I was interested in populating the @scheme attribute of the Atom category. For example: It's interesting to me to know from where the tag comes, which community or folksonomy is it part of. It's valuable

[uf-discuss] Blogger's hAtom Support

2007-08-06 Thread Kevin Marks
http://epeus.blogspot.com/2007/08/microformats-in-blogger-hatom-support.html Those of you who read my blog directly, rather than via a feed-reader, will notice that it is looking styled again, for the first time since CSS Naked Day in April. I made an initial conversion to hAtom by hand in the

[uf-discuss] Wired call fro open social networking standard

2007-08-06 Thread Kevin Marks
http://www.wired.com/software/webservices/news/2007/08/open_social_net ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss

Re: [uf-discuss] hCard: title or role

2007-09-20 Thread Kevin Marks
from vcard: 3.5.1 TITLE Type Definition Type name: TITLE Type purpose: To specify the job title, functional position or function of the object the vCard represents. Type example: TITLE:Director\, Research and Development 3.5.2 ROLE Type Definition Type name: ROLE

Re: [uf-discuss] semantic web and microformats

2007-10-09 Thread Kevin Marks
On Oct 9, 2007 10:27 AM, Tom Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The microformats community works on the basis of having the data embedded into the HTML. The RDF/SemWeb approach looks to have a consistent data model, and then having as many representations as you like of that data model. The data

Re: [uf-discuss] semantic web and microformats

2007-10-09 Thread Kevin Marks
Note that is more then 2 years after the original 'can your site be your API?' presentation by me and Tantek... great to see these ideas spread out. Drew's slides are much prettier though... and he cites 'fork handles' http://epeus.blogspot.com/2007/07/end-homographophobia-now.html On Oct 9,

Re: [uf-discuss] web programmers vs web designers and microformats

2008-01-04 Thread Kevin Marks
In semantic HTML, the right way to do this would be to use cite around the name: citeJulie/cite so doing cite class=hcard a href=http://juliettemelton.com/; class=url uid fn rel=friendJulie/a/cite which has an implied nickname, and adds the XFN for my friend On Jan 4, 2008 2:23 PM, David Janes

Re: [uf-discuss] stats on well formed XHTML

2008-01-18 Thread Kevin Marks
What I found with the technorati crawler was that the atom timestamps were mroe reliabel than RSS, as RSS timezones were underspecified. Talking of hAtom, here's a tool that uses it: http://googlenotebookblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/permalinks-up-and-hatom.html Niall told em last night that he's

Re: [uf-discuss] Largest Deployment of Microformats on one site?

2008-01-18 Thread Kevin Marks
maps.google.com has a lot as well, but they're only in response to searches. I bet eventful.com have a lot too. On Jan 18, 2008 1:11 PM, ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 18, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Ben Ward wrote: For reasons which will be revealed next week (yes, I'm a tease, sorry), I'm

Re: [uf-discuss] rel-license: what does the license apply to? (open issue revisited)

2008-03-19 Thread Kevin Marks
Is the problem that the page contains multiple video elements? If so using hAtom to define them as separate entries may help clarify this, especially in conjunction with rel-enclosure. On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Angus, On Wed, Mar

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats Mania in Vancouver, B.C - Events Aplenty Join Us - Open Web, VanDev, SocialCamp

2008-04-09 Thread Kevin Marks
As part of my talk on the Social web I'll be discussing Google's social Graph API, which is a cache of the distributed social graph created by XFN On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Gerald Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Join us for the Open Web Vancouver 2008 two-day conference on Apr

Re: [uf-discuss] Parsing XFN in PHP

2008-04-09 Thread Kevin Marks
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Julian Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me expand on that. Julian Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:21:37 I'm really looking forward to the SG-API becoming useful, but right now it's pretty flaky. There's a lot of pages you'd expect to be in there

[uf-discuss] Generically converting JSON to POSH

2008-07-14 Thread Kevin Marks
XOXO is the generic way to turn JSON into HTML (and back) - see http://www.mail-archive.com/microformats-discuss@microformats.org/msg06827.html The problem is knowing what are user-visible keys and what aren't On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Nirmal Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul

Re: [uf-discuss] hcard authority?

2008-08-28 Thread Kevin Marks
Have a look at the representative hCard brainstorming: http://microformats.org/wiki/representative-hcard-brainstorming if the cards are linked, this can help you decide which to use. On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello James, On Thu, Aug

Re: [uf-discuss] title - heading/label/caption/?

2009-01-15 Thread Kevin Marks
Have a look at http://microformats.org/wiki/existing-classes 'label' is used in hCard for unstructured addresses. could you re-use 'entry-title' from hAtom? On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Thomas Loertsch loertsch.tho...@guj.de wrote: hi, in hRecipe we use recipe-title to avoid the

Re: [uf-discuss] FYI: serialization of hCard into JSON

2009-03-02 Thread Kevin Marks
Do have a look at http://portablecontacts.net - the JSON spec there is a good model to go to and from hCard (thats where we staretd from wehn desiging it, before we looked at a lot of other contact schemas too). On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:55 AM, David Janes davidja...@blogmatrix.com wrote: I've

Re: [uf-discuss] FYI: serialization of hCard into JSON

2009-03-03 Thread Kevin Marks
Whats the data loss? One of the nice things about these tools is that you can chain them, eg piping hCard into PoCo through vCard: : http://www.plaxo.com/pdata/vcard?vcardUrl=feeds.technorati.com%2Fcontacts%2Fkevinmarks.com and piping the result into XOXO for easier human readability:

Re: [uf-discuss] Multiple vote-links

2009-06-09 Thread Kevin Marks
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Bruno Barberi Gnecco br...@likeorhate.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 18:17 -0300, Bruno Barberi Gnecco wrote: We are using vote-links extensively in our new site (likeorhate.com) And doing so wrongly. VoteLinks are a badly named microformat. They are *not*

Re: [uf-discuss] Google Rich Snippets - testing tool

2009-08-27 Thread Kevin Marks
Great tool guys. I tried it on my original hReviews, - looks like your rating extraction is not honouring the abbr title pattern - it shows you seeing my unicode stars, not the title='4'

Re: [uf-discuss] Ident Engine

2009-10-08 Thread Kevin Marks
Great stuff glenn! 2009/10/8 André Luís andr3...@gmail.com Hi Glenn, comments inline. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Glenn Jones glenn.jo...@madgex.com wrote: Hi André Thanks for the nice comments about the identity work. Can you email me a quick summary of the errors off the