jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
Can anyone at @LPNational tell me why A guy screaming ivermectim at antivax events is headlining your "anti-war" rally? Not a Russian, a Ukrainian, or Libertarian An anti-vaxxer Maybe because this ain't anti-war rally @LPNational is planning a #J6 reunion and not telling you
Rage Against the War Machine https://twitter.com/RageAgainstWar_
The one and only @jimmy_dore🔥 We forgive you for not mentioning Rage Against the War Machine on February 19th in DC. You talked about the War Machine, and that’s al...
jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
Need more proof the #J6 reunion that @LPNational has planned for this Sunday at @RageAgainstWar_ is nothing but a Putin megaphone Compare Twitter feeds or @LPNational and Russian Embassies. They are the same Mises Caucus is probably a branch of the FSB Skip the #J6 reunion
David P. Hunt https://twitter.com/Dave64P
Why does the Libertarian Party sound like Russian Mission OSCE? twitter.com/RF_OSCE/status… MFA Russia? twitter.com/mfa_russia/sta… Russian Mission Geneva? twit...
jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
The idea that #Libertarian support unions is nonsense. Activists on the left are skipping @LPNational #J6 reunion this Sunday. They know it a Putin fest -no #Libertarian will go -no #marxist will go It is a #maga and #Qanon meet up for #antivaxxers and election denials.
Shawna Burley 🌺 https://twitter.com/shawna_burley
Left "Activists" didn't support ✔️#M4M4All ✔️#RailroadStrike ✔️#rageagainstthewarmachine By now, it should be clear their marching orders are to quash any ...
jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
These are people who attending and promoting the #J6 reunion the @LPNational has planned for this Sunday at Lincoln Memorial. Shawna calls for Cabinet members to be executed @LPNational said America not Russia is the enemy @LPNH called two twice last week for attacks on DC
Shawna Burley 🌺 https://twitter.com/shawna_burley
EVERYONE on Twitter should report this tweet for spreading disinformation. Just because she's a government official, doesn't mean she should be excused. twitter.com/Under...
jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, and Rage Against the Machine have nothing to do with this event Lies @tmorello isn't going. @LPNational co-opted #RATM band name. They then planned a prowar rally and lied calling it peace. Look who is going. A reunion of: #J6 #maga #antivaxxers
Free & Equal Elections https://twitter.com/FreeandEqual
We’re sponsoring this event and love @tmorello + @MrChuckD + @cypresshill of @prophetsofrage. It’s time to UNITE & Rage Against The Machine! Glad to see @rogerwaters ...
jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
Just a reminder that @LPNational are planning a #J6 and #MAGA reunion at a pro-War rally this weekend. They have even invited #oathkeepers @LPNational had to send out reminder not to bring guns. You may want to get out of DC this weekend. Huge QAnon /MAGA lovefest for Putin
Herbert Elizabeth fella https://twitter.com/OzymandiusUK
The organiser quickly deleted her warning as soon as the concerns around violence and weapons at #RageAgainstWar became public Luckily I screen grabbed the tweet
jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
Just a reminder. This is from @LPNational And they are organizing a Pro-Putin rally this weekend in DC. Who do you support as a #Patriot? America or #Putin
Libertarian Party https://twitter.com/LPNational
jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
You can add being an obvious Russian stooge to the list of stereotypes. Watching Libertarian Party devolve into some BS grift called "MAGA Communism" is pathetic. Do not attend @LPNational event. Just a J6 and #MAGA reunion
Keri Smith 🌱Deprogrammed https://twitter.com/RealKeriSmith
Covering for perverts & predators. Defending pedophilia. Unable to connect w real people or articulate a vision that inspires. Angry, arrogant & anti-social. Lack of basi...
jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
The @LPNational facist convention has nothing to do with Russia they say. Then why do tankies, Vatniks, and verified Russian bots keep advertising the party
Hatter https://twitter.com/Randon7981
Imagine that I followed a Russian bot right back to the libertarian party. Surprise!
jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
Hey all Just a reminder. If the speakers go on about "blood and soil" You are at a rally to support facism. Not peace. Not antiwar. @LPNational and Nick Brana planned a rally to praise authoritarianism. Skip it. @RageAgainstWar_ is a lie
Marty McGuire martymcgui.re

Are you exploring together during eternal Caturday?
#Caturday
Tantek Çelik tantek.com
Nineteen years ago last Saturday, @KevinMarks.com & I introduced¹ #microformats @OReillyMedia ETech 2004, building on “semantic (x)html”.

We’ve come a long way since, from methodologies to #microformats2, from publishing to peer-to-peer #IndieWeb use-cases.

We named #microformats only after we had established a pattern of real world examples; even our talk proposal was named RealWorldSemantics², and provided examples in that broader theme.

This exemplified important implicit values in ordering our efforts:
1. get real world things working first, not just theory
2. name them after a pattern emerges, not just solo efforts
3. grow the pattern with proposals, prototypes, iteration, evolution

The examples at that point in time:
* XFN — using rel-values for blogroll semantics, and the technology that defined rel=me in v1.1³, now the standard for decentralized social media verification on Mastodon⁴, GitHub⁵, elsewhere, and the basis of RelMeAuth⁶
* XMDP — XHTML MetaData Profiles, notably using an HTML class⁷ with a particular value 'profile' to indicate presence of a specific semantic structure
* XOXO — XHTML Outlines, formalizing existing usage of (X)HTML elements for outlines, also using an HTML class with a particular value 'xoxo' to express a semantic

Growing the pattern:
* rel=license — solved page licensing better than before, since widespread adopted
* VoteLinks — new rel values, prototyped, only one consuming implementation (since defunct)

And further brainstorming:
* recommendations — initial rel="recommendation" idea eventually evolved to hReview, and today’s h-review
* syndication — helped motivate HTML5 <time> element, eventually led to hAtom, and today’s h-entry
* playlists — led to various ideas, proposals, & demos⁸, still not really solved today


The mid-2000s were a time of eager experimentation, when we were learning that very small bits of markup (yes, hence the name) could be used to build some very useful capabilities on top of the open web platform.

A few observations with the benefit of years of experience since we proposed “microformats”:


One: Many microformats succeeded because we solved an existing problem, with existing *complex* solutions, by providing a drastically *simpler* solution.

XFN instead of FOAF. rel=license instead of Creative Commons RDF in HTML comments.

By doing so, we skipped the often harder problem of defining & refining a problem worth solving, a use-case, or user scenario.


Two: A few microformats succeeded because they solved existing problems, re-using *existing established* open solutions in other formats, reformatted into native HTML.

hCard from vCard. hCalendar from iCalendar.

This methodology leveraged years of prior hard open standards work by numerous others across numerous organizations, and deliberately avoided the bikeshedding trap of renaming things (or any other kind of non-trivial “clean-up”) while reformatting, thus making it easy for developers of one technology to see the 1:1 mapping and use the other.

The primary downside with this approach was formats that were larger than perhaps necessary for HTML-specific use-cases.

Eventually for microformats2 vocabularies, we adopted a subset approach, looking for web publishing use-cases for each feature, making h-card smaller than hCard, and h-event smaller than hCalendar.


Three: Success in a search engine was not enough, and sometimes attracted more bad actors than good. @KevinMarks.com, myself, and others at Technorati built search engine indexing and use of rel-tag and hReview, which helped evolve their specifications. A few other small search engines indexed rel=tag markup, however none remain today. hReview was adopted by Google which led to it being heavily spammed.

This pattern repeated itself with other microformats, and eventually we shifted from:
→ of course search is the first obvious use-case
→ search is one use-case among others
→ we need primary use-cases outside of search for longterm ecosystem success
Which leads to the fourth observation.


Four: Publishing alone is not a use-case. There must be multiple consuming code use-cases (beyond search) for a microformat to succeed longterm.

From individual features to whole microformats vocabularies, we learned that not only did there need to be sufficient content being published already, without microformats, that could benefit, but there needed to be good enough consuming code use-cases that benefited users (not just developers). The #IndieWeb community has been exceptionally helpful in both defining such use-cases and iterating on them with implementations.

We still get questions of the form: What’s the best way to mark this up?

I used to very much believe that if you could mark something up more semantically, you should spend the time & effort to do so. This drove a lot of early experiments with markup, and did provide some eventual benefits, most notably when semantic HTML elements provided good hooks for accessibility tools such as screen readers.

Now we know the answer to the question of “How should I mark-up this content?” must be accompanied by specific use-cases for consuming code of that markup.

If there is no consuming code use-case, it is not worth the time to add the mark-up (never mind the maintenance effort over time).

Sometimes one single consuming code use-case is sufficient to justify the time & effort to add more semantic mark-up. If that markup helps screenreaders, then it’s worth it. More often than not however, there must be multiple (again, beyond search) consuming code use-cases for it to be worth adding semantic markup, and certainly for developing new markup, whether microformats features or new microformats.


This focus on and repeated asking of questions like:
* What is the (consuming code) use-case?
* Or how does it benefit readers of this content?
has helped focus our modern microformats efforts on actual benefits to humans first, and machines second (if at all).


If you think of IndieWeb use-cases for existing or new microformats, come join us in the developers chat:
* https://chat.indieweb.org/dev

If you think of other use-cases or want to chat about modern microformats methodologies in general, join us in the microformats chat:
* https://chat.indieweb.org/microformats


This is day 32 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days

← Day 31: https://tantek.com/2023/044/t1/unified-sent-box-universal-outbox
→ 🔮


Post glossary:

h-card
 https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card
h-entry
 https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
h-event
 https://microformats.org/wiki/h-event
h-review
 https://microformats.org/wiki/h-review
hAtom
 https://microformats.org/wiki/hatom
hCalendar
 https://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar
hCard
 https://microformats.org/wiki/hcard
hReview
 https://microformats.org/wiki/hreview
rel-license
 https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-license
rel-tag
 https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag
rel-values
 https://microformats.org/wiki/existing-rel-values
XFN
 https://gmpg.org/xfn/
XMDP
 http://gmpg.org/xmdp/description
XOXO
 https://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo


Previously, previously, previously:
* https://tantek.com/2019/044/t1/15-years-ago-introduced-microformats
* https://tantek.com/2014/042/t2/ten-years-ago-introduced-microformats-etech
* https://tantek.com/2011/042/t2/years-ago-presented-microformats-etech
* https://twitter.com/t/status/701095802


References:
¹ https://tantek.com/presentations/2004etech/realworldsemanticspres.html
² https://tantek.com/log/2004/02.html#d04t1311
³ https://gmpg.org/xfn/11#me
⁴ https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification
⁵ https://hachyderm.io/@nova/109790530971147702
⁶ https://tantek.com/2023/032/t1/years-relmeauth-replace-openid
⁷ https://tantek.com/2012/353/b1/why-html-classes-css-class-selectors
⁸ http://microformats.org/wiki/events/2007-12-11-open-media-web
#microformats #microformats2 #IndieWeb #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days
Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com
🏠 we have a roof! 🏠

Episode 6 of The House Files is out! More talk about designing our kitchen and countertops, and starting to work on the low voltage wiring designs!

https://youtu.be/w6TaPWIVPs8
#housefiles #triplex
Tantek twitter.com/t
Nineteen years ago last Saturday, @KevinMarks.com & I introduced^1 #microformats @OReillyMedia ETech 2004, building on "semantic (x)html". We’ve come a long way since, from methodologies to #microformats2, from publishing to peer-to-peer #IndieWeb ... tantek.com/t5PQ1
jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
Hey @RobertMackey you are familiar with the grift of the Russian Narrative. Please look into the @LPNational and @PeoplesParty_US "antiwar" rally @RageAgainstWar_ The rally is so sus, it is a whose who of Pro Putin speakers, MAGA Communist Grift, and antivaxxer headliners
jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
Anopther good thread showing you that @LPNational and @PeoplesParty_US brought you nothing but pro-Russian voices This is not an anti-war conference at all
Michael Donnelly https://twitter.com/thissmallplanet
Roger Waters will speak by video at the pro-Putin pro-war rally in DC February 19. Shameful. #BoycottRogerWaters @rogerwaters #rageagainstthewarmachine #RageAgainstWar
gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

Feeling pretty hopeless today. Some days I feel pretty confident all the best days in life are behind me.
jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
If your support is coming from Zero Hedge That's a good sign : -You aren't telling the truth -You are telling the story Russia wants you hear. But sure keep telling #libertarians, #marxists, and #antiwar folks this isn't a Pro-War rally and a grift? All MAGA and Covid Convoy
Mack Black https://twitter.com/MackBlack99
Ron Paul: How We Can Stop The Coming War With Russia | #RageAgainstTheWarMachine zerohedge.com/political/ron-…
jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
I have always loved this shot
Scarlet Guyette https://twitter.com/ScarletGuyette
🎸🎶🌹
jgregorymcverry.com twitter.com/jgmac1106
aren't #Libertarian aren't #marxists How the heck are headliners of an (right-left) antiwar rally? -A guy who shouts ivermectin -Another who takes money to lie about Syrian Genocide -Jackson Hinkle how can anyone think @RageAgainstWar_ is about #Ukraine or #Russia? Grift?