Category Archives: Microformats

In defense of microformats

I’d never received an Open Letter until Alan Morrison posted one earlier today in response to an interview I gave to Straight.com about microformats and the (lowercase) semantic web. For the sake of completeness, here’s what he wrote:

Chris, judging from your interview in Straight.com, you seem like a thoughtful guy. But you don’t seem to understand [...]

Stowe Boyd launches Microsyntax.org

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 and [...]

Google Profiles, namespace lock-in & social search

I’d originally intended to respond to Joshua Schacter’s post about URL shorteners and how they’re merely the tip of the data iceberg, but since I missed that debate, Google has fortuitously plied me with an even better example by releasing custom profile URLs today.
My point is to reiterate one of Tim O’Reilly’s ever-prescient admonishments about [...]