Re: [uf-discuss] A microformat for relationship availability and preference?

2006-12-21 Thread Ben Ward
On 21 Dec 2006, at 10:10, Ciaran McNulty wrote: 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. In my day job,

Re: [uf-discuss] A microformat for relationship availability and preference?

2006-12-21 Thread Frances Berriman
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'

Re: [uf-discuss] A microformat for relationship availability and preference?

2006-12-21 Thread Siegfried Gipp
Am Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2006 11:10 schrieb Ciaran McNulty: > In my day job, I keep seeing places where an hCard would be useful > where organisations are publishing contact information, but far from > wanting to make it easily parsable they seem to put all their efforts > into trying to obfusc

Re: [uf-discuss] A microformat for relationship availability and preference?

2006-12-21 Thread Ciaran McNulty
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 wh

Re: [uf-discuss] A microformat for relationship availability and preference?

2006-12-21 Thread Siegfried Gipp
Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006 14:02 schrieb Angus McIntyre: > 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? I keep finding myself torn between the > desire to implement XFN j

Re: [uf-discuss] A microformat for relationship availability and preference?

2006-12-20 Thread Angus McIntyre
At 07:41 + 20.12.2006, Ciaran McNulty wrote: On 12/20/06, Chris Messina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You could also use the absense of certain XFN values as a stopgap... At least you know that the folks without sweatheart or spouse haven't removed themselves from the pool! Notwithstanding

Re: [uf-discuss] A microformat for relationship availability and preference?

2006-12-19 Thread Ciaran McNulty
On 12/20/06, Chris Messina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You could also use the absense of certain XFN values as a stopgap... At least you know that the folks without sweatheart or spouse haven't removed themselves from the pool! What if one's sweetheart doesn't have a URL (insane as that sounds i

Re: [uf-discuss] A microformat for relationship availability and preference?

2006-12-19 Thread Chris Messina
You could also use the absense of certain XFN values as a stopgap... At least you know that the folks without sweatheart or spouse haven't removed themselves from the pool! Chris On 12/19/06, Alex Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all. It's my first post, and I'll just dive right in. I'm in

[uf-discuss] A microformat for relationship availability and preference?

2006-12-19 Thread Alex Payne
Hi all. It's my first post, and I'll just dive right in. I'm interested in using microformats to represent an individual's relationship availability and preferences. This is part of an experiment in pushing relationship-seeking to the *cough* edges of the network, if you will. I'm hardl