[microformats-discuss] Hi, I'm Kevin, and I'm Addicted To Microformats

Mon Oct 10 13:49:37 PDT 2005

On Oct 7, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Kevin Lawver wrote:
> My name is Kevin Lawver, and I work for AOL. I heard about 
> Microformats from Tantek at SXSW 2003, and thought they were a good 
> idea, and even added have an XFN sticker on my Powerbook.
>> My personal interest in microformats stems from my general laziness 
> and love of conformity. I don't want to have to think about how to 
> mark something up all the time. I think Microformats can go a long 
> way towards standardizing how we mark up particular pieces of data 
> that will allow me to spend more time watching reality TV.
>> Seriously, I work at a company that has a huge collection of 
> developers spread all over the world. If I can tell all of them, 
> "Hey, you should mark a review or search result or list of blog 
> posts this way, and heres' the documentation," they'll be more 
> likely to do that, and we'll have an easier time maintaining and 
> "discovering" that content. It's why I pushed XHTML here, because 
> we no longer had to argue about uppercase tags or quoted 
> attributes. It was decided for us. I'd love to be able to use 
> microformats to push that a little farther (and it means I can 
> write more compact and more readable CSS, which is a good thing).

Kevin, its great to have you aboard. I'm looking forward to what you 
can do with microformats at AOL.
-ryan
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Ryan King
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