<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This same idea came up in #microformats the other day, with no less</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">than three people having independently invented it.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Given that you</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">guys are two more, this is about as unambiguous as a zeitgeist can</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">get: it's a great idea.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I would be one of those 'independent inventors'. :D</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Basically, what I want is a microformat for blogs. I think there's enough similarity among blog markup to warrant trying to develop a format.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Isn't RSS already a microformat for blogs?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It's not XHTML, but it seems to have been developed specifically for communicating discrete updates on a website, and covers the three primary characteristics of a blog post: title, permanent link, content. The one missing piece I can think of is the idea of a standard syntax for "in-reply-to".</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-mike.</DIV></DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">----------------------------------------------------------------</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">michal migurski- <A href="mailto:mike@stamen.com">mike@stamen.com</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>415.558.1610</FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>