Microformats
I saw Chris Messina's presentation on Microformats + DiSo at the Open Web Vancouver conference and then caught up with some of the background of Microformats at Gerald Bauer's presentation at the VanDev Meetup last Wednesday.
From their website:
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns (e.g. XHTML, blogging).
I like the pragmatic, "let's not make everyone start again" approach and I've sprinkled a few examples on this site (including this blog entry). It's pretty easy to implement and has got a lot of potential, so what have you got to lose? Read more at microformats.org.
posted on April 19 2008