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Getting Started With hCalendar

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

hCalendar, one of several microformat standards, is a simple, open, distributed calendaring and events format, based on the iCalendar standard (RFC2445). According to microformats.org, microformats are data format standards that a diverse community of individuals and ...

Filed under: Blogs & Blogging : Structured Blogging : Microformats : Technical Writing : Structured Authoring

Structured Blogging: Real World Example in Movable Type

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Technology blogger Rod Boothby (one of our favorites) explores structured blogging templates for use with the popular blogging tool Movable Type. If you’re a blogger, this article will help you understand how structured blogging plugins will impact the way you author ...

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Blog Spotting: The Geeky Traveller

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

I stumbled across this great weblog from the popular technology blogger Darren Barefoot. It’s called Geeky Traveller, “a website dedicated to the places geeks go, the things they do when they get there, and the gadgets they play with along the way.” Visit the site for ...

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S1000D Blog: Sense out of Confusion

Monday, June 05, 2006

The S1000D Blog is a forum for discussing the increasingly important technical publications standard known as the S1000D Specification. According to its creators, the blog aims to keep track of what’s going on in the world of S1000D and to provide news, reviews, ...

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Structured Blogging Releases German Site

Monday, May 01, 2006

A German version of the Structured Blogging website is now available. Organizers are seeking additional translation/localization assistance to help spread the structured blogging gospel around the globe. If you’d like to take a shot at localizing the site in another ...

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Structured Blogging Plus DITA - Authoring Online Help Without A HAT

Monday, April 10, 2006

I’ve been thinking about the many ways that Structured Blogging might be employed to help technical writers and other content creators do what they do better, faster, and cheaper. Structured Blogging is a new concept in the technical communication and content ...

Filed under: Blogs & Blogging : Structured Blogging : DITA : Help Authoring

Structured RSS Feeds Help Search Engines

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Resources of a Resource (ROR) is an XML format for describing the content, objects, and the structure of a website so that search engines (and other web applications) can better understand and locate information.