Monthly Archives: May 2009

Stowe Boyd launches Microsyntax.org

May 26th – 11am

Stowe Boyd launched Microsyntax.org this morning and announced that I will be the first member of his advisory board. Stowe and I have batted around a number of ideas for making posts on Twitter contain more information than what is superficially presented, and this new effort should create a space in which ideas, research, proposals [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Microformats, Technology | Comments (8)

The open, social web

May 18th – 5am

I was in Europe for the past week and half, ending up in Leuven, Belgium to speak at the Twiist.be conference. The topic of my talk was “The Open, Social Web.” (PDF) At first I struggled to develop a compelling or sensible narrative for the talk — as there is so much to it that [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Citizen-centric Web, Digital Identity, DiSo, Open source, Society & economy, Web building | Comments (6)