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Revision as of 01:39, 18 July 2007
Microformats have many benefits for news reporting:
- Distributed Reporting
News can be reported on various platforms and services, and be identified, aggregated, and re-distributed to local aggregators and wire services.
- Pro-Am Journalism
Microformats allow anyone to report news without needing to use an exclusive or proprietary application. So long as other services can perform searches or real-time analysis of incoming items, news content can be recognized.
- Topical Filtration
As the volume of news increases, rel-tags and more news-specific microformats can be by topic-specific services to filter news content.
- Content-Type Filtration
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