At the recent Syndicate 2005 conference, a group of companies announced a new standards called “Structured Blogging”.
I feel a new term coming for 2006 - Blogging 2.0 - Web 2.0 will be passe, so we have to have some thing new to buzz about.
Structured Blogging is a way to get more information on the web in a
way that’s more usable. You can enter information in this form and
it’ll get published on your blog like a normal entry, but it will also
be published in a machine-readable format so that other services can
read and understand it.
Think of structured blogging as RSS for your information. Now any
kind of data - events, reviews, classified ads - can be represented in
your blog.
Structured Blogging makes it easy to create, edit, and maintain
different kinds of posts and is very similar to an edit form on a blog.
The difference is that the structure will let users add specific styles
to each type, and add links and pictures for reviews.
Microcontent Types
- Reviews
- Events
- Lists
- Media (audio, video, images)
- People and group showcases
They recently launched a site to evangelize the concept and of course, blog about it.
About the Author: Steve is currently CEO of the SlipStream Aviation Solutions, Inc., an aviation software company. Steve is also an expert in personal branding and is an avid pilot, musician and photographer. He currently resides in Columbia, MD, USA.
