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title: "Some thoughts about extended feeds & microcontent"
date: 2005-05-02T23:27:07-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/05/02/some-thoughts-about-extended-feeds-microcontent/
author: Les Orchard
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# Some thoughts about extended feeds & microcontent

* [Is a feed the right place for your data?][place]

* Do reviews belong [in the feed][rvw] or [in the content][hr]?

* How about calendar events--[in the feed][me] or [in the content][hc]?

* If it's just generated via template, why not both?  Or is this where [the law][law] intends I should be conservative?

* Is anyone working on a [Markdown][md] of microcontent?

[md]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[law]: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/01/08/postels-law
[rvw]: http://www.pmbrowser.info/wiki.pl?RVW
[me]: http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/event/
[hr]: http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/hReview
[hc]: http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/hCalendar
[place]: http://bitsko.slc.ut.us/blog/feed-data.html

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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://www.joereger.com/entry-logid7-eventid3953.log"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=1632fa21318a3f5c98cacbba145b348a&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png"/></a>
                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://www.joereger.com/entry-logid7-eventid3953.log">Joe Reger</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221085528" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-05-03T09:32:46">2005-05-03T09:32:46</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Hi!  Great questions.  I've posted some observations/responses here: http://www.joereger.com/entry-logid7-eventid3953.log

Best,

Joe Reger</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/">Phillip Pearson</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221085530" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-05-03T21:18:48">2005-05-03T21:18:48</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Call this a manual trackback: http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/2005/5/4/#200505041</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221085532" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-05-05T09:41:34">2005-05-05T09:41:34</time></a>
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            <div class="content">I have some pictures with a small amount of fairly static metadata which I previously had in RDF in a text file. I started moving it into an RSS 1.0  yesterday. So it's still RDF but with the focus on syndication and with the extra metadata supplied with a separate namespace. Then I had misgivings about that. Having read this stuff I think I should perhaps leave the data where it is and create an independent RSS feed to point to it.</div>
            
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