You may have noticed some new features on spraci. Blogs are now themeable (you can change the look of your blog easily - go to "blog design" to change your blog settings). New admin page There is a new "Dashboard" page to help you manage your own content on spraci which shows your most recent blog posts, events and forum posts with links to all the forms where you can post and edit your content. User Groups have been added. You can now create a group which other people can join with its own forum and a combined blog of all group members' blogs. (with rss feed)

If you are the moderator of a group (you are the moderator of any group you create), you can set the forum to be "open" (anyone can view it, users who are logged in can post, like on the other forums)

or "closed" (only people who have joined your group can view its forum or post to it)

Look for the "Groups" link in the forums section or go to http://www.spraci.com/groups to sta

You will soon have some new methods for adding your events to listings sites like spraci.com thanks to the use of

microformats /

I've had a look at the wordpress plugin.

I think I could set it up so that when an event is posted to a blog via this plugin it is recognised as an event and posted to the event listings under the correct date, categories, city, etc.

In simple terms:

The use of microformats like hcalendar could provide lots of interesting ways for people to syndicate data such as event details, locations, contact details, etc to to other sites using standard blogging software while still keeping the data in seperate machine-useable fields.

Staying Future Focused in the Storm of NOW!

PSFK, UK - Oct 28, 2008

... sliced down the content, the more abundant the channels of communication; the shorter the attention span, the more abundant the volume of micro-formats. ...

Website Optimization

Slashdot - Nov 7, 2008

The material that composes the actual last sidebar in the first chapter " on metadata and microformats " could have been relegated to an appendix. ...

Onstage with Bill Gates at Mix 06

O'Reilly Radar, CA - Nov 9, 2008

For example, the structured cut and paste with microformats that Ray Ozzie demoed at our eTech conference really made a splash. How can you get this kind of ...

Tarpipe: Simplify Your Social Media Workflow

ReadWriteWeb, CA - Nov 10, 2008

... the flow of your data more granularly. Developers can make use of an extensive API, and, as a bonus, Tarpipe also supports OpenID, OAuth, and microformats.

Down to Semantics

Builder AU, Australia - Nov 10, 2008

Microformats: The problem with the current HTML tags is that they don't reveal the meaning of content. Microformats are an attempt to use the HTML tags to ...

Designers and Developers: Back Together Again Through Microformats - JQuery is, at its most basic, a Javascript library designed with a lot of utility functions to make programming quicker and easier. Every Javascript library says it ...

About a month ago Microsoft presented Oomph, a first attempt to integrate microformats in their tools1. Oomph at this moment consists of an IE8 plugin, a set of css styles and a plugin for the blogging tools Windows Live Writer. ...

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Microformats in Affiliate Marketing

Bigmouthmedia News, UK - Nov 13, 2008

As HTML develops, bigmouthmedia believes that microformats will begin to play a larger part on the web, in affiliate marketing - and in Google Base. ...

Microformats can be described as the set of open data formats which have been designed first for human and then for the machines and are truly based on the existing and widely accepted standards. Using these widely accepted standards ...

Where 2.0 2009 CFP Is Open

O'Reilly Radar, CA - Nov 14, 2008

Protocols and Formats: GeoRSS, GML, KML, EXIF, Microformats, Geo OpenSearch. Which formats are on the way in and which ones are on the way out? ...

A Journey To The Edge Of The Web (Perth, 2008)

SitePoint, Australia - Nov 14, 2008

Using BarCamp and Coworking as examples of Rhizomatic models he then went on to the story behind Microformats, a proposal that had first been put to ...

Microformats can provide so much additional semantic information for websites benefiting both usability and search engine optimization efforts, yet they are not very widely adopted. Why do you think this is? ...

At the moment the Oomph toolkit provides a glimpse at what you can do with Microformats. Certainly the ability to have something identify a Microformat exists on a web page and allow that information to be subsequently consumed without ...

Yesterday at Codebits there were some interesting presentations, but the one from Andr Luis about Microformats, really caught my attention. If youre interested in having a good introduction to this matter just read this presentation. ...

It seems like a lifetime ago that I first sat down with a cup of tea and a bourbon biscuit and thought about the conventions that we use for naming HTML/XHTML id and class attribute values. Comments are open at For A Beautiful Web.

This is, however, a good example of what I consider a failure in the design of some Microformats. For me, the big advantage of Microformats over other data publishing mechanisms is that I just need to add a few adornments to data I'm ...

Google-

, China - Oct 20, 2008

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Having worked in the world of semantic XHTML and CSS, a quick glance at the microformats site was all it took to get my wheels turning. This prototype is the fruit of the great collaboration of a few of us on the MIX Online team. ...

Oomph makes Microformats more accessible for developers, designers and users. Oomph is an amalgamation of applications: an Internet Explorer Add-in built in C++ that finds Microformats on a page; a cross-browser HTML overlay built using JQuery that aggregates Microformats; a set of beautiful CSS styles for Microformats; and a Windows Live Writer plug-in written in WinForms for inserting hCards. Saved By: Microformats | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: microformats, semantic markup, microsoft, tools

MIX Online is a community for web designers and developers who build and believe in the innovative web. We also have a sister conference called MIX. Simply, this is who we are. Saved By: Microformats | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: microformats, semantic markup, microsoft, oomph