Chat as MicroContent?

Interestingly Eric Meyer sees chatting as another form of MicroContent. He notices that in the MacOSX chat client Adium, chat is treated like XHTML with a style sheet. I had a look at the Adium spec. A chat session consists of events (open close window), status messages (online, offline, away) and the actual messages. And the latter are the most interesting. The fields composing a chat message consist of a sender name, a timestamp and the actual message. A message is not real MicroContent as it does not have a permalink. And the meaning of a single message is unclear outside the chat-log. So it is one step to far to call this implementation MicroContent, but I do see some possibilities.

[Inspiration Eric Meyer]

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