[microformats-discuss] reblogging needs proper citation, source attribution, as does localization/translation

Thu Jul 14 19:02:32 PDT 2005

On 2005年7月14日 23:15:00 +0200, Tantek Çelik <tantek at technorati.com> 
wrote:
> Agreed. There needs to be proper <blockquote>ing built into any such 
> reblogging with use of the 'cite' attribute to link to the original, and 
> perhaps a user-visible hyperlinked <cite><a href="...">blogged 
> from</a></cite> as well.

Of course quotes need to be handled appropriately. In many cases a reblog 
is just a straight copy of an entire post from somewhere else and not a 
quote though. In that case I don't think a <blockquote> is the cleanest 
way to handle it.
When you are making straight copies the trick is *not* to create a second 
permalink for this copy. After all you are not creating a new entry, you 
are simply referencing a post somewhere else. That means you need a way of 
distinguishing permalinks from other links (ie. a microformat for blogs - 
more on that later).
See also: <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20050103-0020/ > (the XMDP 
profile linked is old, and doesn't reflect my current stance on a format 
for blogs).
See also: <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ > where permalinks on photo 
entries go straight to the domain where they are reblogged from 
(scatterjoy.net) instead of having a second permalink on solitude.dk.
- Andreas
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