[uf-discuss] Social Media Group?

[Chris Messina]

We could, but I don't know if it's that a big of a deal.

I mean, the community will dictate what gets adopted and what doesn't.
Implementation is a much better "seal of approval" enforcement that
going for real legal protection. IMHO.

;)

Chris

On 9/14/06, Don Park <donpark at docuverse.com> wrote:
> My advice is to get some legal protection and introduce 'seal of approval'
> as an option so microformats can be created outside the group as well.
> Otherwise, this will happen over and over. - Don
>
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>
> I'm not involved with it, but I'm aware of it.
>
> This is Chris Heuer's project.
>
> I don't quite see how this is a microformat in the community sense though
> the goals are similar. In some ways, it's kind of like the hWidget project
> that was developed outside the microformats community and process, which, as
> we've seen, has resulted in lesser adoption.
>
> I don't quite understand why they're working outside the microformats
> community, except that it's not the traditional folks who work on standards
> or webdev who are involved (i.e. PR firms).
>
> I do take issue with the way that they're going about building out this work
> and calling it a microformat; in some respects, this is where, as a
> community mark, the microformats community should make clear how it feels
> about work of this nature being called a "microformat" that has exclusivity
> baked into its community model:
>
> "Membership in the working group is subject to approval by the Social Media
> Club advisory board"
>
> Their wiki is here: http://www.socialtext.net/hrelease/index.cgi
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 9/14/06, Ryan King <ryan at technorati.com> wrote:
> > Just found via a google alert:
> >
> > http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=162010
> >
> > > SILICON VALLEY, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- September 12, 2006 -- On the
> > > heels of its official launch, Social Media Club (SMC) formed the
> > > Media Release Working Group to develop the hRelease, a new standard
> > > for modernizing the traditional press release for a Web-centric world.
> > >
> > > The Media Release Working Group will work closely with the
> > > Microformats community, while evaluating other technologies such as
> > > XPRL, XBRL and NewsML to establish a standard way of organizing,
> > > tagging, distributing and sharing "official" organizational
> > > communications among blogs and other online communities. The group
> > > intends to present an initial draft specification on Nov. 2 at the
> > > Society for New Communications Research Symposium in Boston.
> >
> > ... and so on...
> >
> > I know there's been discussions of this "social media release"
> > elsewhere on the interweb, but is there anyone here who's involved in
> > the process?
> >
> > -ryan
> > --
> > Ryan King
> > ryan at technorati.com
> >
> >
> >
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