blog-description-brainstorming

Blog Description Brainstorming

Thoughts on a microformat to markup the information on a blog about the blog itself. E.g. links to feeds, names of authors etc.

Contributors

• Robert Bachmann
• Tantek Çelik
• Kevin Marks

Just use hAtom

It seems like a lot of the goals for this can be achieved with hAtom.

• top level - "hfeed"
• Blog name (e.g: "John Doe's Blog") == feed/title = "fn" - the Blog's formatted name
• Blog URI (e.g: http://example.org/ ) == feed/id
  • Or perhaps <link rel="alternate" ... /> per Atom Feed Autodiscovery (discussion), LINK tag for pointing to a page’s RSS feed.
• Language used for the blog, read-able by machines (e.g: "en-US" or "de") == XHTML lang attribute
• Topics covered by the blog == feed/category
  • use rel-directory in conjunction with rel-tag
• A small logo image == "logo"
• A short description == "description"

Other Aspects

What about location?

• geo

See Also

• blog-description-examples
• blog-description-formats
• hAtom