[uf-discuss] microformats for dummies

[André Luís]

Tara,

That  would be awesome. I have made a shy attempt at it
(http://andr3.net/blog/post/104) but my screencasting skills are so
very poor! I will leave it to the pros. It would be awesome to have
something like those examples for microformats. (and non-english
speaking folks) From my own experience, it's not enough to do a video
demo. It should be engaging and interesting... so that it would
circulate on blogs, emails, etc.

And Patrick, I would start with something along the lines of that
video. Introduce the general concept, which is to bring out the data
in the pages. It's not just "pages" anymore. We can extract pieces of
relevant data from some of them... All you, the users, need to worry
about is how you can use this to your advantage. (go on explaining how
it's done today)

Leave out the technical jargon as much as possible :)

Cheers,
André Luís

On 10/12/07, Tara Hunt <horsepigcow at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's an awesome video, John!
>
> Which makes me think that we should ask Lee Lefevre really nicely
> whether he would put together a 'Microformats In Plain English' video
> for the community? Usually he charges big bucks, but he's a community
> guy and may recognize the value in this.
>
> For his former work:
>
> http://www.commoncraft.com/video-googledocs
> http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
> http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english
>
> Tara
>
> On 10/11/07, John Allsopp <john at westciv.com> wrote:
> > Pat,
> >
> > > I was wondering how to explain microformats and what it brings to
> > > people that have no knowledge of HTML and what html tags are. Normally
> > > I would explain it as adding semantics  or ontologies to your html
> > > tags. But I have to present microformats to a crowd that doesn't have
> > > any knowledge of HTML or programing in general and don't know what a
> > > HTML tag is in the first place
> >
> > point them to this
> >
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjp4BaJOd0M
> >
> > j
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