Re: [uf-discuss] Granddogma Goes to Bar Camp
On 8/21/07, Tara Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an awesome post and goes back to a discussion I became very frustrated in a while back: IMHO, the ideal state of the end user is they see (for example) Tara's name on a webpage and they just click to copy the microformat to their address book. Underneath, they don't care how all the plumbing gets there to make this work, they just do the action. What will they call this action? When most people use technology, it's all just magic words: TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, e-mail, hook up the cable modem, push the brake peddle: simple invocations that refer to using technology that underneath _they really have no idea how it operates_. Our job as technologists is to make using microformats as magical as that. As to nomenclature, Microformats is as good a magic word as any other proposal I've heard, and probably better than most. Regards, etc... -- David Janes Founder, BlogMatrix http://www.blogmatrix.com http://blogmatrix.blogmatrix.com ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
Re: [uf-discuss] Granddogma Goes to Bar Camp
This is an awesome post and goes back to a discussion I became very frustrated in a while back: http://groups.google.com/group/microformats/browse_thread/thread/611d4e6f671d64bb/378786b75487d62c?lnk=gstq=Magicrnum=2#378786b75487d62c On 8/21/07, Chris Messina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought you guys might appreciate this: http://blog.stealthmode.com/2007/08/granddogma-goes.html Chris -- Chris Messina Citizen Provocateur Open Source Advocate-at-Large Work: http://citizenagency.com Blog: http://factoryjoe.com/blog Cell: 412 225-1051 Skype: factoryjoe This email is: [ ] bloggable[X] ask first [ ] private ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss -- tara 'miss rogue' hunt co-founder CMO Citizen Agency (www.citizenagency.com) blog: www.horsepigcow.com phone: 415-694-1951 fax: 415-727-5335 ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
Re: [uf-discuss] Granddogma Goes to Bar Camp
From: Tara Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is an awesome post and goes back to a discussion I became very frustrated in a while back: http://groups.google.com/group/microformats/browse_thread/thread/611d4e6f671d64bb/378786b75487d62c?lnk=gstq=Magicrnum=2#378786b75487d62c So what is it that a layperson would call what microformats does? Off the top of my head, they help you share information, so you can use it with other systems. It's a shame that Use It has already been taken by Nielsen, because I think that the term Use It nicely encapsulates what microformats allows you to do. Use It also provides a nice at-first-glance explanation to people who haven't seen it before. -- Paul Wilkins ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
