hreview - Microformats

As anyone who knows me can attest, I have a ton of books.

I was just reading about the new hReview Microformat and it really caught my interest.

Reviews, to me, are very handy. I use them to choose what products to buy, what software is worth trying out, what movies I want to see or rent.

Also, they can be a handy way to quickly select what books from my own collection I should look at when researching a particular topic. I am pretty good at remembering what is in what book. But a couple of times in the past several years, I have been surprised when a particular technology was thrown in as an example in a book I had not expected to delve into that subject.

I own four Ruby books at this point. I have my eye on one or two more. I have looked at several others at Borders and decided not to buy them. They just did bring add enough new knowledge to me in the case of the latter.

I also picked up a copy of the July 2006 Linux Journal the last time I was at the bookstore. I would like to write a reviews of that when I finish reading it. It is a pretty fascinating issue for someone who is into Ruby programming.

Microformats:

hReview is a simple, open, distributed format, suitable for embedding reviews (of products, services, businesses, events, etc.) in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. hReview is one of several microformats open standards.

Technorati tags: hReview, microformats, reviewing, metadata, xml, rss