On 21/12/06, Ciaran McNulty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/20/06, Angus McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are all kinds of inferences that it's dangerous to draw from an
> incomplete description.
I concur, Microformats allow us to publish information, but the
absence of them shouldn't be taken as conveying information.
> Which raises the whole question for me with XFN, which is a practical
> one, rather than a technical one: do we really want the world to know
> all that stuff about us?
Yes, quite.
Inherent in the Microformats movement is the desire to make
information easier to publish and aggregate, but people need to
consider carefully what parts they want to make available about
themselves and their relationships to others.
Just to briefly step back to another "principle" - using microformats
does not mean you should be publishing things you would not normally.
For example, if you wouldn't normally publish your phone number -
don't start now just because you want to use the tel part of hCard.
Same goes for XFN. If you don't already say "I'm this person's
wife/colleague.. etc" don't start doing it! A person probably
shouldn't start publishing information themselves that they were not
originally comfortable with broadcasting. It's personal choice, and
all optional. ;)
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Frances Berriman
http://fberriman.com
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