Three dimensions of MicroContent

Marc Canter describes the three dimensions of MicroContent. I agree with these three dimensions, but I like to repeat in my terminology:

• embedded - this is MicroContent that appears in MacroContent containers, such as a HTML-file. A MacroContent container might contain multiple MicroContent item of multiple types. In order to be able to recognise and understand these individual items special markup is needed;
• feed - this is a MacroContent container with a list of MicroContent items. The items in this list present the newest items. Older items will fall of this list. A list might contain items of multiple MicroContent types. Here one should think of RSS or Atom. The basic idea is that the content of the container is changing and slows a sliding window;
• single - this is a MacroContent container that contains one or more items. One can think of a file that contains a single recipe. Or a file that contains my blogroll, my reading list, all my bookmarks, etc. Applications and services should be able to import these files (or even better subscribe);

Categories/tags: general microcontent; containers;
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Hi Arnaud, I don’t know if it means anything but I couldn’t help noticing a similarity between your three dimensions and what I recently listed in a microformats-discuss post as ways of associating explicit data with a HTML document:

1. Inline : i.e. microformats
2. Embedded: e.g. Structured Blogging, trackback, Creative Comments
3. Linked: e.g. RSS/Atom, FOAF etc (as RDF/XML)

http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-October/001299.html

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