BurningbirdGoogle is currently having a live presentation on changes the company is making to search. The changes are quite significant, and very impressive. The one that caught my attention, though, is rich snippets. Google will now read and incorporate two open standards, microformats and RDFa, in its search results. So is annotating your page with microformats […]
I should be working on my book, if I don’t want my pitiful little reserve to be sucked dry before I’m finished. At the same time, though, I feel engaged with the discussion about “microdata” et al in relation to the HTML5 working group. And I figure the writing I’m doing providing new use cases […]
I’m now a member of the HTML Working Group at the W3C, as an invited expert. I was rather surprised at how fast the membership was accepted. Surprised and faintly alarmed. I imagined existing members sitting around in the dark, rubbing their hands together and murmuring, “Ahh. Fresh meat.” I’ve been working with Philip in […]
While I’m in the process of looking more closely at the Microdata proposal, I wanted to note that today marked the end of the first day of the code sprint for incorporating RDFa into the core of Drupal 7. Yes, when Drupal 7 hits the streets, 1.7 million Drupal web sites, and counting, will have […]
I do have considerable sympathy for 1Thomas Crampton, when he discovered that all of his stories at the International Herald Tribune have been pulled from the web because of a merger with the New York Times. So, what did the NY Times do to merge these sites? They killed the IHT and erased the archives. 1- […]