Structured Blogging: Getting On Board
In a post to the structured blogging listserv, Jon Mandell of PubSub Concepts provided a brief overview of the state of structured blogging including a few hints as to what the future holds for the extremely popular open source weblog movement.
Some of the goals Mandell identified for structured blogging include:
- Continue collect feedback (lots of positive feedback since announcement at Syndicate 2005
- Develop new schemas as requested (some ideas include structures to support “recipes” and one to support “offers to sell”)
- Focus on demonstrating compelling end-user benefits
- Aggregated events used in portal-like environment
- Book reviews used for local content site
- Shared restaurant servers used for tourist info site
- Conversion routines between formats
- Support more blogging platforms
- Produce code libraries for:
Those working on the structured blogging initiative may disagree on some things, but one thing they agree on is the need for a non-profit organization with a clear mission.
“We are currently looking for participants in the initiative that would like to assist in establishing this non-profit,” Mandell wrote. The reasons Structured Blogging needs to become a non-profit organization:
- To ensure this remains a truly open-source effort
- Full transparency in bringing Structured Blogging to the next level
- Ensuring it supports all formats
- Collect funds to support further developments
What can you do to help?
If you are interested helping with the development of a strucutred blogging non-profit, Mandell says he needs your help. What can you do?
- Lend your name to establishing a tax-exempt non-profit membership organization
- Help fund the initiative (sponsorships available)
- Get the word out—Blog about structured blogging
No place to blog?
Mandell says they’ll provide would-be bloggers with a place to blog on the structured blogging blog.
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