I asked Wolfram Alpha: what is RDF? I would have been more impressed by Wolfram Alpha if at the end of its interpretation of my request, it asked me, “Was this answer correct? Was this answer complete? If not correct or complete, what do you consider RDF to be?” I then asked the same question of […]
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When social media closes the door
I have work to do, trying to pull a lot of pieces together into some semblance of a balanced and comprehensive document on HTML5, RDFa, Microdata, et al, but first, I need decompression time from an excess of social media this last week. I don’t know how all of you can manage the various weblog/mailing […]
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Google searchology-Rich Snippets
Google 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 […]