blog-info-examples

Blog Info Examples

Contributors

• Tantek Çelik
• Chris Casciano

Introduction

Examples of what people actually publish on the Web when discussing, linking to, referring to blogs beyond just linking to them using a person or organization's name, which is a solved problem (use <cite> and hCard). Examples of beyond that include listing one or more feeds for the blog being referenced.

This is the "blog reference" equivalent of the media-info-examples.

Emphasis on Practical, Simple, and Minimal

This document is deliberately restricted to examples that are:

• Actual examples in practice on the Web with URLs to the originals.
• Simple and minimalist. As simple as possible.

Once there are sufficient blog-info-examples, and documentation of any known blog-info-formats, we'll hopefully start a blog-info-brainstorming page to do aggregate analysis of the examples.

Overall Notes About Examples

These examples are specifically limited to pages/sites/blogs that reference a one or more blogs and information about them like their feeds. The case of a a blog describing itself is a separate effort that involves more detail. See blog-description-examples for on that.

Note also that this has similarity to the media-info-examples work (media references sometimes include references to alternate formats), and the citation work as well, though the citation work is focussed more on references to print (non-online, non-live) media.

Real World Examples

• Jon Udell's blogroll: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/ , each item has:
  • blog URL
  • blog name
  • blog feed URL
  • blog feed type (implied by file extension or image)

• IT Conversations list of programs and feeds http://www.itconversations.com/rss.html
  • blog URL
  • blog name
  • blog feed URL
  • blog feed type (implied by file extension or image)
  • blog author/host (only for some programs)