Since our exercise with microformats didn’t happen last week, I decided to research it for one of this week’s posts and see if I can learn a bit more. I decided to check out Sandy’s blog because I remember seeing that she had written about microformats so I figured I might learn something there. Also, Sandy and I are swapping links so we can learn about TrackBacks. Two birds with one stone.

So, Sandy has THREE posts on microformats! The first one is called Technorati and Microformats
and I learned a bunch there. We discussed Technorati in class and I’ve read a bit about it, but there’s something about reading a classmate’s description of it that gives it a fresh perspective and makes it more understandable. Maybe it’s the peer quality; makes it less intimidating and therefore easier to digest. So what I got is that Technorati is essentially a search engine for blogs. You can claim your blog there so others can find you more easily and you can also use it, as Sandy pointed out, for seeing what other people are saying about topics that interest you. The neat thing about it is that it pretty much operates in live time. You can get updates on new posts every 60 seconds. Cool!

Sandy’s second post is called Detecting Microformats and talks about the Firefox plug-in and how it’s still buggy for 2.0.

The third post is called vCard: Evolution to Microformats and talks about how the address book format of vCard has been transformed to work on the Web via the hCard.

There ya go, Sandy. Some TrackBacks for you and some additional learning for me. : )