October 5, 2002

Adding metadata to my template (per Syndic8)

Christian Crumlish

Peering into my referrer logs this morning, I saw a reader coming from Syndic8, so I decided to take a look at how this site looks through that syndicator's display.

I noticed that RFB is listed as not having the metadata that Syndic8 looks for, so I followed a link to some metadata help, followed a further link to the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names to get the longitude, latitude, and a numerical code for Oakland, and came up with these new metadata entries for the HEAD section of my home template:


<META NAME="dc.creator.e-mail" CONTENT="contactus@radiofreeblogistan.com">

<META NAME="dc.creator.name" CONTENT="Christian Crumlish (xian)">

<META NAME="tgn.id" CONTENT="7014250">

<META NAME="tgn.name" CONTENT="Oakland">

<META NAME="geo.position" CONTENT="
37.800;-122.267">

<META NAME="geo.placename" CONTENT="Oakland, California">

<META NAME="geo.country" CONTENT="US">

<META NAME="dmoz.id" CONTENT="Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/">

While investigating that last meta tag (name="dmoz.id"), I discovered that Radio Free Blogistan is not listed at DMOZ, so I submitted it in the Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs category.

Posted by xian at October 5, 2002 9:34 AM
Other incoming links (via Technorati)

Hosted by Mediajunkie.

Sponsors
On this day in 2004
Ev resigns from Google's Blogger team: In evhead: Next?, Evan Williams explains that he's been on the startup dotcom treadmill for six years now and needs to work on some other aspects of his life. Sounds like a healthy move. He answers all of the inevitable questions in his post, debunking in advance any potential rumor of... (Products)
Ev's head: Evan Williams quits Blogger. Film at 11.... (Blogosphere)
On this day in 2003
My BloggerCon essay rejected (apparently): I submitted my post about nonprofit weblogging to the Blogger Con: Essays directory and got no response. I thought perhaps it was too late to submit something (last Friday), but I notice there's a new essay from Oliver Willis added today, so I suppose my essay simply didn't pass muster. Oh... (People Power)