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Gaurav Bhatnagar reporting from New Delhi, India

structured blogging: adding method to madness

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The much blogged about service Edgeio launched today. Edgeio lets bloggers post their classified ads directly to the Edgeio website by tagging their posts with the keyword “listing”. So basically Edgeio is a classifieds aggregator. I am not very convinced about this idea thus far. Classified ads, by definition, need fine classification to be relevant and easily discoverable. I need to be able to say what I am selling, for what price (and currency), what model, till what date is my ad valid etc. This is important because otherwise people can’t search on these criteria. I doubt that can be achieved with plain old text blog posts that Edgeio is harvesting right now.
This is a problem that has been given considerable thought and in fact this is at the core of the whole philosophy of the “semantic web”. Web 2.0 is supposed to be structured and machine readable. Blogs and RSS syndication was the first step in that direction. When you make a blog post, your RSS feed gets updated and hence in a way, your blog becomes machine readable. That is why sites like Technorati can know exactly when and what you blogged. And that is as far as services like Edgeio can get to today. But suppose you posted a review of a restaurant you went to, or a movie you watched, how do you let Technorati know that it is a review? And more specifically, a review of a movie which you rated 3 on a scale of 5? For a machine, it is all just plain text. So as far as a dumb machine (and they all are) is concerned, a blog post is no different from a movie review is no different from a classified ad.
Structured Blogging is an attempt to solve this problem. The basic approach is to allow the user to specify what type of content they are posting (review, event, blogpost, video, audio etc) and then based on the type of content, let them specify more specific “metadata”. The input data is then published as XML (using well defined schemas) as well as embedded (well defined) XHTML. Since the format is pre-defined, the content is machine readable.
While this might sound like lot of geek talk, wide adoption of structured blogging will have huge implications. Applications like Edgeio will be able to provide much better user experience. Search engines will become smarter at answering queries like “show me all events related to XML happening in Gurgaon between this and this date”. There will be services which will aggregate specific user generated content (as opposed to sites like Technorati which aggregate all types of blogs) like movie reviews or tech. events. The possibilities are endless and I am excited about this next to next generation “web 3.0″!
At Tekriti, we have added Structured Blogging support in most of the stuff that we do (GoingOn and People Aggregator being two big ones).

Written by gaurav

February 28th, 2006 at 11:28 pm

Posted in Semantic Web

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  • Anonymous

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    Leading to sharks in Haryana Gurgaon engr colleges to skin delhi students. The biggest shark ITM gurgaon at palam vihar has poor facilities yet sheer shortage has led to the Directors demanding Rs 8 lacsand selling most of their seats despite supreme court rulings. Help

  • Anonymous

    POOR Engineering Facility for under graduates in Delhi
    Leading to sharks in Haryana Gurgaon engr colleges to skin delhi students. The biggest shark ITM gurgaon at palam vihar has poor facilities yet sheer shortage has led to the Directors demanding Rs 8 lacsand selling most of their seats despite supreme court rulings. Help

  • Anonymous

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    Leading to sharks in Haryana Gurgaon engr colleges to skin delhi students. The biggest shark ITM gurgaon at palam vihar has poor facilities yet sheer shortage has led to the Directors demanding Rs 8 lacsand selling most of their seats despite supreme court rulings. Help

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    The placement sucks, excluding computers which manage around 50% placement tht too of peanuts, there isnt a single company opting for Mechanicals, EI students.
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  • Priya

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    The placement sucks, excluding computers which manage around 50% placement tht too of peanuts, there isnt a single company opting for Mechanicals, EI students.
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  • mayank

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    3)Also I want to know about the reservations for
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    4)Is there any other way to get addmision in your institute without AIEEE. I mean through other exam.

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    3)Also I want to know about the reservations for
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    4)Is there any other way to get addmision in your institute without AIEEE. I mean through other exam.

  • amrit

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  • unknown

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  • unknown

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  • ex- ITMITE

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    2> do a internet search(google) – there will be hundreds of ppl on internet. Stuck in the same situation as you are.
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    And forget ITM if u dnt get adm in ComScEngg coz placements are nearly nil in other streams.
    Best of luck for your careers.

  • ex- ITMITE

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    And forget ITM if u dnt get adm in ComScEngg coz placements are nearly nil in other streams.
    Best of luck for your careers.

  • K K chaudhary

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  • K K chaudhary

    again chawla is joining at ITM and needs First lecture to write and teach the students. Any body can commnet aboute chawla’s teaching style.

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  • pleasure_hunter

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  • sk

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  • sk

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    I am getting electronics& instrumentration in ymca(faridabad)
    & EEE(electrical & electronics) in bharti vidyapeeth delhi(affiliated to guru gobind singh indraprastha university).
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    plz reply as early as possible (within 3 days)
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    I am a 12th passed out student & has got around 18000 AIR rank in aieee
    I am getting electronics& instrumentration in ymca(faridabad)
    & EEE(electrical & electronics) in bharti vidyapeeth delhi(affiliated to guru gobind singh indraprastha university).
    What should I opt for????
    plz reply as early as possible (within 3 days)
    It’s a sincere request to all!!!!

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    I am getting electronics& instrumentration in ymca(faridabad)
    & EEE(electrical & electronics) in bharti vidyapeeth delhi(affiliated to guru gobind singh indraprastha university).
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    plz reply as early as possible (within 3 days)
    It’s a sincere request to you!!!!
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    I am getting electronics& instrumentration in ymca(faridabad)
    & EEE(electrical & electronics) in bharti vidyapeeth delhi(affiliated to guru gobind singh indraprastha university).
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