Saturday, October 05, 2002

Adding metadata to my template (per Syndic8). 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. [Radio Free Blogistan] 2:49:54 PM

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