Hi, I was inspired to write an article about why microformats are cool and important. Feel free to take a look.
http://nearlyfree.org/microformats-sip-sea-water "...there are 14 billion websites, but like the scattered builders of the tower of Babel, these sites are all speaking different languages. Well, that's not entirely true - they all speak HTML, but HTML was not meant to do much beyond describing how a page of information should be displayed to a human (ideally 32 pixels large, without serifs, pink and blinking), or declaring that some kind of link between two documents exists ("Click here to see pictures of my pet mongoose"). So yes, this system was designed to be able to publish all human knowledge, but only in a very, very unorganized way, which makes higher-order functions like categorization, aggregation, and notification very very difficult. For instance, we need Google, the most powerful supercomputer brain on the planet, constantly sorting through the muck, just to help us find things, which it sometimes might do for you, if you're lucky. But being able to find things, though important, is really only part of what a useful knowledge system should be able to do. Information is much more valuable when it is stored in such a way that higher-order operations on it are possible, and better yet, are easy." Cheers, Keith _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
