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24 Jul 2004
New weblog
I introduced a new category on this weblog: Micro content. I am starting to get interesting in this subject and started to gather news and links around it. Micro Content is for me anything published by a person, which is a small piece of content. Usually this person is a consumer, an end-user, who gets in on the action of publishing content. The content can be anything: a weblog, a book review, a bookmark, a review (of a book, sundial, product, etc.), his music, a music list, etc. There is no limit to this content listing. The content is typically very small in terms of number of bytes.
Usually this content is free to be used by other services, when they consent to the rules of the publisher. A Creative Commons license might be used here.
The content might be published using a syndication format. such as RSS. This makes it easy for other services to create for instance networked services. The RSS feed can be adapted to a OpenContent XML format, so that the various fields get more meaning and the networking gets more interesting.
I will try to extend this rough description in the future as I add content to this category. If the category grows out of control I will move it to a separate weblog in the future. We’ll see what happens.
Update: I decided to create the new weblog and I moved this entry to that weblog.