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1. Joe Gecko
   28 May 2009 at 21:37

   Great Podcast, really like it. However i'd like to say that the Web is broken in lots of ways, one of which is that its content is mostly unstructured. Most web pages have a title and some content, and that is about all you can assume. Researchers and standards bodies have been trying to impose more semantic order on the web since its earliest days, by adding metadata so that web crawlers can parse the content accurately, rather than relying on inference. These efforts have had little success outside academia; and the semantic content of typical pages has arguably got worse rather than better, thanks to the trend towards richer pages using JavaScript and Flash, rather than simple text marked up with HTML. So the question is "Can MICROFORMATS help transform the Web?" Tim Anderson explains how on ITJOBLOG.