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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The 5 personal change barriers instant test

November 18, 2005 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

How to identify someones main worry about a coming change. I found this technique in a book a long time ago – "The Secret Language of Success: Using Body Language to Get What You Want" by Dr. David Lewis (1989). I confess I never got round to testing it properly but it sounded intriguing so I pass it on - "buyer beware".

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