Dear Schema.org Googlers, please read The Official Google Blog: The meaning of open http://j.mp/gmopen longlink: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html
Want to hack the news? Join the Knight-Mozilla (MoJo) News Tech Challenge by June 5! http://j.mp/mojohx longURL: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/06/want-to-hack-the-news-join-the-knight-mozilla-news-tech-community/
quite a decent essay from @manusporny that debunks a lot about #schemaorg: http://manu.sporny.org/2011/false-choice/
10 years since @Doctorow's "Metacrap" first draft of 2001-05-15 (trust that date?) http://j.mp/metacrp longlink: http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm
are you a fan of typography? Check out Amp&rsand conference 2011-06-17 in Brighton, birthplace of Eric Gill: http://ampersandconf.com/
want to build+advance the open #indieweb? Join us @IndieWebCamp in 3 weeks! Book your flights to Portland today: http://indiewebcamp.com/
Asks @leepowell: Aren't Google+MS part of #schemaorg? A: G+MS have good open people, and arrogant delayed-open people.
Thanks Google+MS folks who *openly* work on standards and *communities* like #ActivityStreams, #microformats, PortableContacts.net, OAuth.net, OpenWebFoundation.org, W3C.org, and WHATWG.org (I'm sure I'm forgetting some). Thank you for working hard to openly be and do good, in addition to not being evil (unlike the arrogant short-sightedness that is schema.org).
more on #schemaorg: worst Google top-down attempt since Google Base. Remember that? http://j.mp/gogdbs longlink: https://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/2.0/elements.html
Will try to find and write some positive things about schema.org tomorrow, but for now, really disappointed in it and the folks behind it. They (should) know better.
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