Standards initiative for blog aggregation and applications

One of the problems with blogs is that posts can have any, or no, structure. So, for example, my blog post about a DVD review might include the running time and the certificate. Your DVD reviews might instead offer a star rating and a genre classification. This inconsistency makes the work of automatic aggregation into a DVD review site very difficult. Likewise its very challenging to do intelligent filtering (e.g notify me of all reviews of Jim Carey's films in the non-comedy genre) .

It also means that collectively as bloggers our film reviews don’t get reach their full potential audiences.

RSS does not help here – it merely makes it possible pass our reviews around amazingly easily but cannot do anything to deal with the lack of a common structure.

Structured blogging is a not-for profit initiative intended to address this which is supported by a number of players and announced at the Syndicate Conference in San Francisco earlier this week (December 13).

Structured Blogging has a very credible set of supporters but there are also those who are more cautious about its prospects, such as Stowe Boyd of Corante, who believe that it is a top-down approach to blog standards which is less likely to succeed than a more bottom-up approach such as microformats or blogspeak.

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Could cell phones destroy civilisation

July 20, 2006 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

"Cell", the new novel by horror writer Stephen King, paints an all too plausible scenario where our addiction to cell phones enables a malicious virus to be pulsed to every phone in the world turning all who take the call into a flock of murderously mad zombies.

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