[microformats-discuss] veg-o-matic: Pre-alpha web service for xFolk and other microformats

Sat Sep 3 07:54:44 PDT 2005

This is very cool Bud. Congrats for getting this out before the holiday.
I've added veg-o-matic to the implementations section of the xFolk spec:
 http://microformats.org/wiki/xfolk#Implementations
Have a great Labor Day Weekend!
Thanks,
Tantek
On 9/2/05 2:34 PM, "Bud Gibson" <bud at thecommunityengine.com> wrote:
> Dear all:
>> I'm not sure you can do anything useful with this at all, but Mike
> Migurski and I have hacked together a demonstration of a potential
> web service using greasemonkey, an alpha-level rewrite of Mike
> Migurski, Mike Frumin, and Eric Rodenbeck's reblog, and one
> microformat xFolk. We call it veg-o-matic because it "slices,
> dices, ...", or at least we would like to think it will some day.
>> You can see veg-o-matic in action by:
>> 1. Installing this greasemonkey script: http://
> thecommunityengine.com/resources/xfolk-forms4.user.js
>> 2. Going to one of these sites:
>> http://thecommunityengine.com/webcites
>> http://de.lirio.us
>> 3. Clicking on the chiclet next to the title and clicking cancel on
> the alert that pops up. If you hit OK, you will see an ugly but
> serviceable edit page.
>> 4. Going to http://thecommunityengine.com/veg-o-matic to see the
> results. You get html and an rss feed.
>> Have a look at this post if you would like to know more details:
>> http://thecommunityengine.com/home/archives/2005/09/vegomatic_an_al.html
>> There's a lot that is not there, in particular any notion of
> individual users, etc. When you look at veg-o-matic, it will also be
> clear you can easily abuse the site.
>> Oh, well.
>> I'm putting veg-o-matic out there because I would like feedback from
> an informed group. If it gets too hairy or abused, I'll just take it
> down.
>> Bud
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