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by Phillip Pearson.
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I feel like I've talked about this before, but it sounds like the hAtom microformat is gaining some traction. Basically it defines a set of standard class names to use to indicate certain bits of a post, and also to surround a "feed" of posts.
I'm not really a fan of Atom as a feed format, as I can't see a clear benefit over RSS. However, a standard way to mark up blog posts for machine readers is a good thing. I can see Technorati benefiting hugely if people pick up on this, as it has historically been pretty bad at detecting where posts, titles etc are on pages. A clear indication that a post on the front page belongs to a certain permalink would also let them cut out a lot of the duplication in their results (which I've been noticing quite a bit on the structuredblogging.org search).
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