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There's some good stuff coming out today, and we're starting to work through the issues that people are starting to report (now that the 'public beta' has started). I'm keeping notes on the plugins over on the SB.org wiki.

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Stowe Boyd doesn't think it will work out because people fundamentally don't like structure -- they want flexibility.

My opinion? Some people like structure, and some don't. Every field is optional in every microcontent type you can publish with the Structured Blogging plugins, so if you aren't interested in giving every detail every time, that's fine. We just have to wait and see what people do in real life, and keep tweaking it until it suits what people want to do. We all have the same goal: to get machine-readable data out there in the world...

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Richard Goodwin reviews Structured Blogging - using the SB WP plugin :-)

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Arnaud Leene wonders what this means for people not using MT or Wordpress.

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Here's a good interview (podcast) with Salim Ismail of PubSub from a week ago, where he talks about Structured Blogging, why PubSub kicked it off, the Feedmesh, and gives the usual introduction to prospective search (which is worth listening to if want to know why PubSub is special: see also my brainstorming on how you would design a prospective search engine and my response to the comments on that post).

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