http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2007/01/19/vrm-microformats/ My personal space Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:00:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2007/01/19/vrm-microformats/comment-page-1/#comment-227 joeandrieu.com » Blog Archive » VRM Process Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:02:46 +0000 http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2007/01/19/vrm-microformats/#comment-227 [...] In a recent exchange with Colin Henderson at BankWatch, he asked about microformats and VRM. I replied that I think there is a lot to learn from their efforts. In particular, microformats has a great ironclad process, established in the early days, that continues to serve as a corral and assembly line for new microformats proposal. It is the foundation for how they forge community consensus. Along with the principle of paving the cowpaths, the process severely cuts down on distracting hypothetical conversations and assures a wiki-documented evolution towards a community consensus. Many newbie questions have been productively answered by a link to the process page and a polite invitation to read it and start working their ideas through it. [...] [...] In a recent exchange with Colin Henderson at BankWatch, he asked about microformats and VRM. I replied that I think there is a lot to learn from their efforts. In particular, microformats has a great ironclad process, established in the early days, that continues to serve as a corral and assembly line for new microformats proposal. It is the foundation for how they forge community consensus. Along with the principle of paving the cowpaths, the process severely cuts down on distracting hypothetical conversations and assures a wiki-documented evolution towards a community consensus. Many newbie questions have been productively answered by a link to the process page and a polite invitation to read it and start working their ideas through it. [...]

]]> http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2007/01/19/vrm-microformats/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Colin Henderson Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:13:21 +0000 http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2007/01/19/vrm-microformats/#comment-217 Thanks for the reference and thinking out the concept. I like the point that "he bigger win from microformats may be learning from their focus on generating community consensus". Thanks for the reference and thinking out the concept. I like the point that “he bigger win from microformats may be learning from their focus on generating community consensus”.

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