[uf-discuss] be it resolved: irc chat logs deserve their own microformat

[Christopher St John]

On 2/2/06, Ryan King <ryan at technorati.com> wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2006, at 8:05 PM, Christopher St John wrote:
> > ...
> > Non-IRC conversations[1] are potentially much closer.
> >
> > [1] http://kitta.net/2006/02/01/i-am-heartbroken/
>
> Not to be pendantic, but that actually *is* an example of an IRC
> conversation. Don't let the cute girl fool you.
>

My thought was that although the source of the data might have
been an IRC/IM chat session, it was being presented in the same
way a phone or in-person conversation might be presented.

I suspect there's a more general "conversation" principle at
work somewhere here, which is one of the reasons I like the
microformats way : it's ok to not do something general.

Should it go up on the examples page, maybe with a note saying
that some think it's an edge case?


-cks


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