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
  
  • Drupal
  • Mambo
  • Plone
  • Xanga
  • LiveJournal
• Produce code libraries for:
  
  • Python
  • Java
  • ASP .Net

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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