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Press

This page documents the press that microformats has received. See also microformats screencasts, presentations, podcasts, and books. Note that some of this press may be in response to the press FAQ.

Ongoing

• Google News search for "microformats"

Blog News

Minor news sites that seem like they are actually blogs:

• Search for 'microformats' at programmableweb.com

2007

June 2007

• "Microformats: People First, Machines Second" in "Electronic Design" (2007-06-21) by William Wong. ED Online ID #15742.

  It's amazing what you can find bouncing around the Internet. I stumbled across microformats while looking for something else. Microformats are a way of embedding semantic information on a Web page. They're designed to augment human-readable versions so software can easily and accurately extract the same information. Also, they're based on a small set of open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.

• "Les microformats donnent du sens aux pages web" in "01 Informatique" - (2007-07-29) issue 1911 by Frederic Bordage. [1] with a french interview of Tantek Çelik [2]

  Web Sémantique. Ces formats tranforment les pages web en bases de données structurées. L'indexation devient ainsi plus riche et plus pertinente. "Une approche du web sémantique pragmatique et simple à mettre en oeuvre". C'est ainsi que François Goube, PDG du moteur de recherche JobiJoba.com qualifie les microformats. (...)

January 2007

• Microformats get real in Government Computer News (UK) (2007-01-15) by Joab Jackson
• Firefox 3: From HTML Renderer To Information Broker by Mitch Wagner, Information Week. Discusses the implications of native microformat support in Firefox (2007-01-03)
• Mozilla Does Microformats: Firefox 3 as Information Broker - Read/ Write web, (2007-01-02)

2006

December

• 24 Ways: Styling hCards with CSS The 24 Ways article for December 14 is John Allsopp's article on styling hCard using CSS (2006-12-14).

November

• Accessify.com announce HTML Mastery a new book by Paul Haine, with a chapter on microformats (2006-11-27).
• .Net magazine (UK), cover date December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew (tutorial not available on-line)
• MacPeople, a paper magazine about Macintosh in Japan, contained an article about microformats on its 12/2006 issue, written by Nobuyuki Hayashi.
• Cover story in iX 11/2006 p. 62-65: Mehrwert-Markup (German: additional value markup)
• Patterns for High-Integrity Data Consumption and Composition, in "The Architecture Journal", an online journal of web architecture published by Microsoft, mentions microformats as a way to maintain high data fidelity in loosely coupled, highly federated systems. "The considerable variety of data these days includes an extensive array of XML-based formats, as well as increasingly widespread, lighter weight data formats such as the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and microformats."

October

• INFOWORLD TECH WATCH: "Bloggers speak out on IE 7" - published: October 20, 2006. Mention/discussion of microformats by Tantek Çelik and Kristopher Tate.
• Practical Web Design, October 2006 issue, "Microformats" article by Rachel Andrews
• W3C Press Release GRDDL Spec

September

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August

• The Big Picture on microformats - who's doing what with microformats right now - by John Allsopp - Published August 28th, 2006.
• Add microformats magic to your site by John Allsopp - Published August 25th, 2006.

July

• Knowledge at Wharton: Tantek Çelik and Rohit Khare: The Progress and the Promise of Microformats - Published: July 20, 2006

June

• Microformats, PHP and hKit, from devzone.zend.com, a PHP developer resource, 28th June.
• Building a more semantic web with microformats, from Mercurytide, 20th June.

May

• DevSource: An Developer's Introduction to Microformats by Phil Haack, May 11.
  • See also Phil Haack's blog post about the article.

March

• (need to backfill these - there were a bunch which we forgot to include)

February

• Web Designing, a popular paper magazine for web industry in Japan, contained an article about microformats on its 03/2006 issue.
• Release 1.0 / Ideas / New Ideas that Matter: Time as a social object, February 16. Video interviews composite, including a bit on microformats.
• SXSW 2006 Web Awards Finalists, February 3rd. microformats.org is a finalist in the "Technical Achievement" category for "the sites that are re-inventing and re-defining the technical parameters of our online experience".

January

• Google Web Authoring Statistics, January 20
  1. The home page of the study "Web Authoring Statistics" itself both mentions “microformats.org” and links to http://microformats.org .
  2. The "Page Headers” page notes that the XFN microformat is the most popular HTML metadata profile: “…people do use the profile attribute, though. The three most-often used values are http://gmpg.org/xfn/1, http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/, and http://gmpg.org/xfn/11. This makes XFN the most popular HTML metadata profile!”
  3. The “a element” page found that three of the most popular ‘rel’ attribute values were microformats: #1 rel-nofollow, #2 rel-license, #5 rel-tag.
• Philoneist: Interview With Technorati Marketing Director Derek Gordon by Jonathan G. Cohen, January 11
• #2 on the list of Best Web 2.0 Blogs, January 2

2005

December

• Publish: Year in Review: CSS, Standards, Microformats and Flash, By Stephen Bryant, December 21
• Newswire: Structured Blogging to support microformats, December 13th
• Linux Journal: Syndication and the Live Web Economy, By Doc Searls, December 9

November

• ACM Queue: A Conversation with Ray Ozzie, ACM Queue vol. 3, no. 9 - November 2005
• Digital Web Magazine: Microformats Primer by Garrett Dimon, November 14, 2005

October

• XML.com: Microformats and Web 2.0 by Micah Dubinko, October 19, 2005

September

• Channel 9: Interview at PDC - Robert Scoble interviews Tantek Çelik briefly on web standards, IE, and microformats.

July

• ACM News Service - Volume 7, Issue 819: Friday, July 22, 2005
• Linux Journal: SuitWatch -- July 21 -- by Doc Searls, Senior Editor of Linux Journal: Making More Sense of the Web
• Knowledge at Wharton: Supernova 2005: It's a Whole New, Connected World: What's the Next Big Thing on the Web? It May Be a Small, Simple Thing -- Microformats
  • Simplified Chinese: <http://knowledge2.wharton.com.cn//index.cfm?fa=article&articleid=1203&specialid=58&languageid=4>
  • Traditional Chinese: <http://knowledge2.wharton.com.cn//index.cfm?fa=article&articleid=1203&specialid=58&l=4&languageid=5>
  • Original english version: <http://knowledge2.wharton.com.cn//index.cfm?fa=article&articleid=1203&specialid=58&languageid=1>

June

• CNET News.com: Supernova 2005 blogcast - David Weinberger interviews Tantek Çelik and Rohit Khare about microformats and microformats.org.
  • Watch the full interview with Rohit Khare & Tantek Çelik (22:21 minutes)
• Golem: microformats.org - Formate für Menschen und Maschinen (German: microformats.org - Formats for humans and machines)

March

• XML.com: What Are Microformats?

See Also

• press-faq