I appreciate the efforts of the Microformats.org guys, but really, who is policing these standards? Not only are the names of the formats not consistent (hCard, XOXO, XFN), but the way they’re used isn’t consistent either.
I’m probably going to start my own open Microformats site sometime in the near future, simply because I need to get this standard moving more cohesively and quickly. There need to be some naming conventions put in place while we still can… and how about some useful code guys?? Why not include the Live Clipboard javascript needed to actually use these microformats. And maybe an XML schema definition? Otherwise these definitions are all over the board.
I’ll probably also release a database script in SQL, mySQL and Oracle formats that can house all this microformat data in a relational way. I mean, if we do this right, everything will be structured, so to me that means that systems will be generating most of the microformat data, not people learning how to write "rel-tag" into their blog posts.
-j
