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Looking over my previous post on hReview, I have to confess that it doesn't look as supportive as I had intended. So here - with my apologies - is a mark two... hReview defines a microformat that can be used in both traditional web pages and blog posts. It can do this because it is essentially self-contained and makes no assumptions about how the content is published. This post considers the question of whether microformats, in general, should take advantage of different publishing techniques and, if so, how. I start with the observation that a number of the elements of hReview would appear to mimic elements familiar to typical a blog publishing environment. For example comparing hReview with Atom (0.8) : hReview Atom summary title reviewer author contributor dtreviewed published updated permalink id where required fields are shown as field-name . The question arises about what should happen if an hReview is published as [part of] a blog post? For example what

I'm glad to see that Bloglines intends to do something about search this summer . Afterall web-based news aggregators have such potential; they have a far more intimate understanding of what a person is interested in than any web-based search engine and they have access to a far more complete set of data than any desktop-based news aggregator. Clearly some of it is going to relate to improving the results that come back from the 'search' box. Here's hoping that includes a personalised component. By their very nature news aggregators make use of a user profile; specifically a personalised list of subscribed feeds. Furthermore a feed seems to be a new and useful unit to work in. There are things I can say about my relationship to a feed that I cannot say of individual posts. For example I might wish to say 'ignore any unread posts more than two days old' for some feeds. Obviously such an ability would not only relate to search, it would have a direct impact o

What Unicorn? - an hReview Jun 1, 2005 by adrian cuthbert product Blade Runner ★★★★★ I managed to see the director's cut of this film with an individual who asked at the end 'What Unicorn?' - you know who you are! <div class="hreview"> <h2 class="summary"> What Unicorn? - an hReview </h2> <abbr class="dtreviewed" title="20050601T2121"> Jun 1, 2005 </abbr> by <span class="reviewer fn">adrian cuthbert</span> <span class="type" style="display:none">product</span> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/" class="item url fn"> Blade Runner </a> <blockquote class="description"><p> <abbr class="rating" title="5">&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;</abbr> I managed to see the

Blade Runner is one of my favourite films. Tags: this_is_an_hreview_2 <p> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/" rev="review">Blade Runner</a> is one of my favourite films. <br/> Tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/this_is_an_hreview_2" rel="tag">this_is_an_hreview_2</a> </p>