History

Naturally the idea of MicroContent and the word itself has not appeared out of nowhere.

Database concepts seem to be the basis of many concepts of MicroContent. Thus a MicroContent Item can be seen as a database record. The big difference is that a record can live outside a database engine, somewhere on the Internet.

Jakob Nielsen wrote a classic piece on Microcontent, although he did not use the word microcontent as it is used here. In the piece he basically urges to write clear page titles and subject lines. This idea can be extended to any field of a structured MicroContent Item. He saw the importance of structure well before my time.

Other definitions of MicroContent:
- Definition of Anil Dash;
- MicroWiki;