Standardization for Structured Blogging
It's great to see initiatives announced to standardize some of the concepts in structured blogging. Although the plugins for wordpress and moveabletype are pretty far from being accessible, easy, or intuitive enough for the masses, it's definitely a great first step and hopefully will get the ball rolling nicely.
“A new era in blogging is upon us. We're expanding the ways we create, share and syndicate content — and we want to make sure that all the emerging standards are inter-operable,” said Salim Ismail, Co-Founder of PubSub Concepts, a leader of the initiative.
I've mentioned may times on this blog that I feel the successes of podcasting and even blogging in general can be directly attributed to the standardization of RSS, and structured blogging IMHO is definitely the next evolution of RSS as a communication medium.
