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metafilter talks about other random meta-filtering projects and the possibility of a metafilter standard for sharing entries across meta sites. i think discussions like this are useful because encourage people to evaluate their sites ontology and information architecture but in the end the problem is really irrelevant. first of all your domain and your meta community usually has it’s own posting standards and frowns upon spamming and out of context data being submitted (aka war postings on sports sites, etc). there’s also the questions of who says that communities want to share their meta data? you can’t create a solution for a problem that has yet to present itself, unless of course your microsoft.


if you did decide to push forward with something like this then there are simple solutions already beings worked on, you’d just need to put a little elbow grease in. for example there are specifications like xml schema that can be used to define your sites submission and information schema. from there it’s simply a matter of using xsl to transform some else’s data from their schema into your schema and then running it through your filtering engine to determine if the content is relevant to your meta community of choice.


there are other problems in the blogosphere worth addressing like blogging schema standards, a better perl, or search templates for mt. but that’s just my view of the world for what it’s worth.

seems that cyberdude has been busy playing with movable type. not only did he set up that domain, but this one as well. welcome to the blogging world dude.

Just when I thought Ford was getting smart ecologically, they announce they’re pulling the plug on their Think Electric Car. Well at least we have the Hybrid Ford Escape coming out next year.

Are Weblogs Changing Our Culture? That’s the question discussed over at Slate in the form of a letter to the editor. The conclusion they came to was: “It’s a format designed for Unabombers or people, like the estimable Mickey Kaus, who don’t quite fit into pre-existing ideologies or political blocs”. Don’t start sending a flame just yet, there are a few interesting and valid quotes like this one: “bloggers put themselves out there in far more ballsy fashion than many officially sanctioned pundits do, and they make fools of themselves more often, too”. It’s a good read if your interested in how journalists and other media view this form of expression.

New for you Radio users out there; monthly archives. You can finally get the feature set that Blogger has had forever. Now if only Blogger could add daily archives or the cool calendar browser that Radio has, then I’d be styling and happy.

There’s a new look and feel over at xblog. It now comes in candy covered CSS2 and fruity flavored XHTML 1.0 markup languages. They also restructured some of the content and moved it over to bblog, which also has a new look and feel.

Looks like Dave Winer is getting into supporting congressional candidates. Namely, Tara Sue who is running against Representative Coble in November. There has been a lot of recent press about her use of a weblog to reach her constituents and get her message out. The folks over at Metafilter have some interesting comments in their discussion about the candidate. The title of this entry came from an article that Wired did on Tara.