Comments on: Structured Blogging: Who is Benefitting and How?

By: Taking a two week break, pondering structured blogging | just write click

Taking a two week break, pondering structured blogging | just write click — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:03:01 +0000

[...] the enterprise, Moonwatcher. I’m contemplating an insightful post by Joshua Porter, ” Structured blogging, who is benefitting and how” and also learning more about the semantic web. I’m working on a DITA specialization [...]

By: blogtoweb.com » Blog Archive » Bokardo ” Structured Blogging: Who is Benefitting and How?

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:47:12 +0000

[...] Bokardo ” Structured Blogging: Who is Benefitting and How? Social Web Design by Joshua Porter … Structured blogging is an initiative to add structure to blog posts of similar content. … [...]

By: Slouching towards Golgonooza » Blog Archive » Structured blogging: tentative conclusions

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:00:24 +0000

[...] In December 14, 2005, Phillip Pearson wrote a post called Structured Blogging is official! This announced that the plug-ins were now publicly available, and linked to the Structured Blogging site. He was optimistic, and indeed most of the commenters were too. The next day Joshua Porter wrote a favourable essay explained how the process would benefit bloggers and aggregators. [...]

By: Library clips :: datablogging : personal knowledge blogging :: January :: 2007

Library clips :: datablogging : personal knowledge blogging :: January :: 2007 — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:26:49 +0000

[...] A while back Bokardo wrote a post about structured blogging and who it benefits…Joshua included a few links in the post to people who think bloggers have the least to benefit, and that the system can be gamed. [...]

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è¿½æ±‚ï¼Œé£Žä¸€æ ·çš„è‡ªç”± » Shilai 12/01/2006 — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 05:00:29 +0000

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By: Global Business Watch - Your Business Information Portal

Global Business Watch - Your Business Information Portal — Tue, 16 May 2006 05:46:39 +0000

[...] Reading up an older post on Bokardo regarding the benefits of structured blogging, let me quote the mentioned benefits for bloggers and developers: Value for Bloggers [...]

By: Rohit Aggarwal » Blog Archive » OPML Podcast

Rohit Aggarwal » Blog Archive » OPML Podcast — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:09:09 +0000

[...] OPML, Structured Blogging and Microformats and Namespaces aren’t mutually exclusive (36:45) [...]

By: i1277 - et nummer i rekken

i1277 - et nummer i rekken — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:16:28 +0000

[...] Joda, bloggsystemer flest er allerede relativt strukturerte, og det er ingen tilfeldighet at du fÃ¥r sÃ¥ mange blogge-treff nÃ¥r du sÃ¸ker i Google. Den semantisk velplÃ¸yde strukturen er i det hele tatt mye av hemmeligheten bak fenomenets suksess. Men de ulike systemene bruker litt forskjellige mÃ¥ter Ã¥ strukturere innholdet pÃ¥, og strukturert blogging skal vÃ¦re en mÃ¥te Ã¥ sikre interoptabilitet (samspillbarhet) pÃ¥, i tillegg til at postens innhold altsÃ¥ skal beskrives bedre, sÃ¥ det blir lettere Ã¥ finne relevante ressurser. Selve struktureringen foregÃ¥r ved at den som skriver en post, i samme slengen fyller ut et skjema som beskriver innholdet. Noen ser for seg dette som et steg mot den bruker-drevne, semantiske weben (dit vi allerede har vÃ¦rt pÃ¥ vei en stund i form av sosial tagging). Et eksempel pÃ¥ praktisk bruk er Ã¥ la bokmerkeverktÃ¸y (som del.icio.us) lagre disse dataene automatisk, sÃ¥ vi senere vil kunne sÃ¸ke gjennom “vÃ¥r web”, ikke bare ved hjelp av tagger eller titler, men ogsÃ¥ gode, gamle elementer som “forfatter”. Et slags Bibsys for blogger, altsÃ¥. [...]

By: J Wyllie

J Wyllie — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:25:20 +0000

The way to stop spamming could be the formation of what used to be call closed user groups (CUGs) in the days of (remember!?)videotex. Today they might be called trusted networks with terms of entrance and expulsion set by the members of the networks.

By: blink4blog

blink4blog — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:03:04 +0000

The overall concept is equivalent to have a better control for all blogs posted. But the questions summarized into 2: First, who would actually able to centralize the repository of the blogs or review? Second, what is the control mechanism that prevents the abuse of spam using the structure?

By: J Wyllie

J Wyllie — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:10:06 +0000

Structured blogging requires the design of multi-faceted taxonomies, an area where a certain amount of expertise can help. It is not the expertise of software programmers. Think in terms of text database fields containing different sets of preferred terms, free form tagging (which can be converted to preferred terms) and, of course, full text retrieval. It then becomes possible to articulate multifaceted questions, such as, in the case of incredibooks, ‘all five star reviews about seafaring by Swiss authors’ and be sure that the answer will be pertinent.

By: Hashim

Hashim — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:33:38 +0000

It should be the burden of the aggregation and search tools to figure out the structure that already exists in blogging.

For instance, almost all blog posts about a recipe have include the word “ingredients” and a list of those items. Almost all music reviews use the word “review”, mention the name of the artist and album, and will use a set of positive or negative words (bad, horrible, boring vs good, innovative, interesting).

In short, there’s already structure- let the computers figure it out.

By: Philipp Keller

Philipp Keller — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:51:47 +0000

Bob Wyman:
Yeah, but is it really another format? I mean semantic web seems to come with all the formats and stuff and tools already? Seems you just need to build an ontology and then implement the format?

Am I wrong with assuming that with structured blogging there is a XML-format everyone agrees to (aka microformat)? But the standard should be highly flexible. You need to have n-m relationships, even hierarchical relationships. You need to have custom fields, etc.. and then you end up in RDF/OWL. Are there flaws in my reasoning? Or are you saying: RDF/OWL is too difficult, we need an easier way to do that?

By: Bob Wyman

Bob Wyman — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:38:40 +0000

Phillip Keller asks: “isnâ€™t this what the semantic web aims to do..? Or how are the approaches different? ” Yes, many of the goals driving the Structured Blogging effort are identical to those of the semantic web effort. The difference is that while the “semantic web” focuses on attributes of the web and data encoding formats, with “Structured Blogging” we’re focusing on the activity of blogging and publishing, not the technical details of format, etc. Thus, we’re providing easy-to-use, open-source tools that are freely distributed in order to make the activity of Structured Blogging something that non-technical folk can do. When Structured Blogging becomes the norm then we’ll have “the semantic web.”

bob wyman

By: Bob Wyman

Bob Wyman — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:30:06 +0000

Take a look at the large collection of book reviews at http://incredibooks.com/. Each of these dozens of reviews was created using the original Structured Blogging WordPress extension. As a result, the format for reviews is consistent across the site, the data is presented in a manner more compelling than simple text, and (most important) it was really easy for the authors of the site to create these visually pleasing posts (that just happen to contain structured data.)

Structured Blogging is a thing you do — not a format. The key contribution in what was announced at Syndicate was that we’ve now provided tools to make it very, very easy to do Structured Blogging. People are doing it. Why don’t you?

bob wyman