Mike's Manic Minute 22 Mar 06

Joshua Allen is the man. . . This week I'm at the MIX06 conference (www.mix06.com) and last night a bunch of us got together, lead by Marc Canter http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/03/microformats-and-structured-blogging-bof  and Tantek from Technorati (www.technorati.com) to talk about microformats and structured blogging.  The basic idea is how can users keep and own their own data but still share it with a broad audience.  Identity Woman, Kalyia Hamlin, also pointed us all to http://itags.net which is an identity based tagging standard, yet another new microformat.   But why Joshua Allen?  Because he kept the food court security at the Venetian hotel busy for 20 minutes so that we could actually have the discussion!  Turns out there's three separate security companies employed by the Venetian and while he thought he'd set everything up with security beforehand, it turns out no one told him about the food court cops!   So kudos to Joshua for keeping them at bay, you da man!   If you want more information about microformats and structured blogging, check out: http://microformats.org/ and  http://structuredblogging.org/ and http://itags.net/   Podcast of the day. . . The Show On 10 http://on10.net/TheShow/   I'm breaking my rule here of allowing the word podcast to be used only for audio and tipping the hat to my compatriots over on the new site, On 10.  It's a new site for people who use technology to produce cool stuff and this is their podcast.   Manic Minute Recommendation: If you make stuff with technology, you gotta be on 10.     And that's your Manic Minute for March 22nd, 2006, brought to you by www.Business-Podcasting.com!MIX06