[uf-discuss] [hReview] Best way to find book reviews

Michael MD mdagn at spraci.com
Mon Jul 23 20:42:47 PDT 2007


> I've been thinking about creating an aggregator of book reviews, based on
> the hReview format. People just needed to drop their website link and it
> would ping it regularly for new reviews. But since the microformat has a
> field 'type' where the best description for a book e product, the parser
> could also get several reviews non-related with books. On the hReview FAQ
> it advises to use to book rel='tag' to specify more the type of the
> review, this doesn't seem to be a common practice in the Examples in the
> wild. So I ask you what would be the best way to find the book reviews.
> Asking for everyone to put the book tag and probably losing hundreds of
> reviews already out there without it?

I was thinking about doing something like this for music/record/cd reviews 
... but it would have the same problem!




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