Structured Blogging seems to be the new buzzword lately. It’s defined as “a way to get more information on the web in a way that’s more usable. You can enter information in this form and it’ll get published on your blog like a normal entry, but it will also be published in a machine-readable format so that other services can read and understand it.” Although the idea is interesting, the way it could be implemented is rather weak. Let’s play the party pooper:

Some of the potential flaws are:

it will fail because people don’t want their music review to look like everybody else’s… they want the variablility of the Web that we have come to expect. But I expect we will accumulate dozens of reasons why not in the upcoming months. (according to Stowe Boyd)

People are lazy: There is simply not enough benefit to the average blogger to compensate for the added irritation of having to pull up a separate form for each type of content you post. It’s a little like the reason why the average Outlook user has around 2,000 emails in their inbox at any time: The cognitive effort of classification is enough to keep people from bothering. The same logic holds for structured blogging (according to Paul Kedrosky),

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