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XHTML and how to trick out your blog
Blogging is an extremely social practice. The work to extend XHTML at SXSW seems largely aimed at further facilitating the social aspects of blogging.
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I'm continuing my thematic coverage of SXSW (South by Southwest) with two oddly interconnected panels, both were done by Tantek Celik of Technorati. Tantek is very into light weight methods to achieve effects. In the XHTML panel he held forth on a method he and others have been pioneering for extending XHTML without having to go to all of the trouble of creating a formal namespace. This talk was the technical side of a talk by Eric Meyer on emergent semantics that I blogged earlier.
The key point is that Tantek and his collaborators are creating an informal infrastructure for enriching the web experience with metadata.
Some ways this could be used became apparent in the tricking out your blog session. In particular, much ado was made about XFN (XHTML Friends Network) and Matt Mullenweg's use of it in implementing the blog role feature in wordpress.
The key insight I gained from all of this is that, although one might think of blogging as an individual activity, getting any mileage out of your blog is a social activity. Tantek has been focusing on these social protocols for that reason.
Bud posted this on March 15, 2005
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