Tantek, Your responses and your reply about 'letting the market decide' what gets to survive on the web makes me think that your attitude about microformats is: "Microformats are for commercial-purposes first and foremost.  Everything else is an edge case that can be dismissed." And, quite frankly, that's a disturbing viewpoint. -Ross. <div>On 4/25/06, Tantek Çelik <<a href="mailto:tantek@cs.stanford.edu">tantek@cs.stanford.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 4/25/06 2:41 PM, "Andy Mabbett" <<a href="mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk">andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk</a>> wrote: > In message <<a href="mailto:C0739614.6D4BA%tantek@cs.stanford.edu">C0739614.6D4BA%tantek@cs.stanford.edu </a>>, Tantek Çelik > <<a href="mailto:tantek@cs.stanford.edu">tantek@cs.stanford.edu</a>> writes >>> I think the case for ISBN is no big difference from telephone number or >>> zip code, etc. >> >> The average person knows, understands, and uses telephone numbers and >> zip codes all the time. The same cannot be said about ISBN. > > Interesting assertion. Care to cite your evidence? Any study showing use of phones (number of phones per househould, cellphones per capita etc.) and postal mail demonstrates broad understanding of those two. ISBN?  I leave that David Letterman or whoever wants to make a funny video asking people on the street what an ISBN is and how to use it. Tantek _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:microformats-discuss@microformats.org"> microformats-discuss@microformats.org</a> <a href="http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss">http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>