Bridging 'Microformat & Structured Blogging'
Some thirty tech bloggers got together for an impromptu BoF meeting on the sideline of MIX06. The foodcourt of Venetian Resort Hotel & Casino to be exact.
Screenshots picture by Jeff Ooi
Marc Canter, an open standard proponent and a speaker at MIX06, convened and led the discussion.
Marc still speaks like a revolution activist. For those who know him as the founder and CEO of Broadband Mechanics, there's more to it.
Screenshots picture by Jeff Ooi
His bio in MIX06 reads:
Marc Canter is one of the most recognized people in the sphere of open standards, social networks and blogging, and he has been interviewed and quoted on the subject matter in numerous publications. Marc is a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences such as Web 2.0, SuperNova, Gnomedex, AlwaysOn Innovation, SXSW and many others. Marc is also a contributer to many open standards efforts and is champion for end-user controlled digital identities and content - being a co-founder of the Identity Gang.
Over the years Marc has also traveled all over the world, consulting to global corporations (AOL, EMI, PCCW, Reuters, T-W, Sony, JVC, Fujitsu, Telecom Italia, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Kalieda Labs and many others) and has written on the multimedia industry and burgeoning world of micro-content publishing and social networking.
He is the founder and CEO of Broadband Mechanics, a digital lifestyle aggregator (DLA) company. Broadband Mechanics builds new kinds of tool and environments which enable everyday people to create and maintain new kinds of online communities. Additionally, DLAs allow people to integrate, aggregate and provide appropriate levels of customization to media, communication and personal publishing.
The agenda was to avoid a 'format war' and find a common platform for Microformat Publishing and Structured Blogging so that content aggregators and syndicators like AOL, Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, just to name a few, could have inclusive web development strategies for weblogs, more so when content is dropping from web into mobile devices.
The meeting was not conclusive as the security guards were not comfortable having thirty people occupying the public space, talking loudly.
Comments
I see a lot of familiar faces in there - Eric Meyer and is that Tantek?
Anyway, structured blogging and microformat are very important especially everyone is writing in the web now. It standardized the way people organize information using metadata. But that's just a very generalized way of putting it; there's a lot of other benefits in embracing these technologies.
Open Standards can't hurt, as always.
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March 23, 2006 11:53 PM