Comments on: Thoughts on structured blogging and Web 2.0

By: SHEMALES

SHEMALES — Fri, 12 May 2006 19:46:22 +0000

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” I say.

By: Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:20:39 +0000

(Great site. Why don’t you have trackbacks on your WP blog?) I am also focussing on the structured blogging and 2.0 aspect of blogging. I enjoyed your view about extending RSS. You may enjoy reading my post on an extension to RSS that I think is vital: http://reblogger.wordpress.com/2006/02/08/blog-content-ownership-and-control/

By: Colin Donald

Colin Donald — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:36:56 +0000

Hi Rachel,

Catching up with your post via RoJo…

I completely agree that structured blogging/microformats has the potential to be a huge leap forward. When I was giving a presentation about user-generated content recently, I dubbed it The Age of Mass Criticism, to emphasise the point that everyone will be able to use these tools to review anything.

I’m still asking the question: what will the consequences be when people start reviewing their local hospital or government services?

More here:

http://www.futurescape.co.uk/content/view/16/27/

http://www.futurescape.co.uk/content/view/18/27/

By: TechCrunch » More Edge Reviews - iNods

TechCrunch » More Edge Reviews - iNods — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:47:35 +0000

[...] There is no way centralized review sites like Yelp, Riffs, Judy’s Book and others can compete with the blogosphere over the long run. Those sites will also have to gather decentralized content, or become meaningless. More and more people are realizing this and writing about it – a good post by Rachel Cunliffe (one example) is here. Tags: inods, techcrunch, web2.0, web+2.0 Categories: Company & Product Profiles | Bookmark this post with del.icio.us [...]

By: gareth

gareth — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:13:34 +0000

The idea behind Microformats (www.microformats.org) is similar to this idea – using standardised markup for commonly used site elements. In fact the hReview proposal (http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview) covers standard attributes for reviews.

By: Hagrin

Hagrin — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:07:39 +0000

I really like your site (just discovered it) and your unique inisghts.

Say hello to the Google Base API. When Google releases an API for their Base application, they may force an XML format/standard for the different content types out there. Currently, when you do a bulk upload, there are certain XML labels you can use per content type. Now, open up that format so that all social sites can standardize the content, register your feed, let the social sites order and categorize your content and you have the RSS world you want.

I don’t think your wish is that far off to be honest.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:05:12 +0000

Rachel,

YES! I agree with you 100%. What excites me is not centralized gardens of content (like ebay), but the wonderful, decentralized, messy aggregations of blog and other content at the edge of the network. I’ve written about Riffs, which I don’t like, and other sites which are starting to realize that there is all this great content already out there on the open web. Things like structured blogging really help, but the data is already out there in unstructured format, too. Ready to be aggregated and, perhaps, monetized.

Wonderful post.