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21 Jul 2005
Addressless URI’s
David Wolber has an interesting blog-entry on Microformats for persons. He wants to create links for persons, but leave the actual address up to the reader. Thus if you see the words “Arnaud Leene” in a piece, then you that it refers to a person (think rel="person"), but it is not defined where the link goes. It could be my FOAF-file, my Aboutme-page, my email-address, whatever. You might see a pop-up list of resources that you could go to. Some are created by the author, others are created by the viewer/reader/client.
I have a similar problem with tags. I use the rel="tag" thingy, but I provide an address to Technorati. But why should I make this decision? The reader can decide for himself where he goes.
I have a feeling that a service is somewhere hidden here. Or it might be solved in the browser.