blogs and metadata

Filed under:Blogging — posted by jbs on March 13, 2005 @ 9:47 am

So, everybody and their brother is looking at metadata these days. Why don’t any of the blog engines have good support for metadata?

Movable Type (which is what I use)
doesn’t seem to have any to speak of.

The whole reason why I’m even interested is that I’ve recently been working on some blogger-as-report functions at work. There is still some amount of hesitation, and I’m don’t think it’s a problem to discuss it.

So, we have a group of peole doing research and producing reports. We have another group of people who consume these reports and make comments, suggestions, etc. They are currently using email. This use of email, I think, is dumb. We should use blogs.
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image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace