A couple of days ago, Technorati introduced Microformats Search and Pingerati. More good news for microformats.

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post (A CV microformat -does it make sense?) on the idea of a “CV microformat”. Then I contacted Tantek, who informed me that Last month a few folks approached me privately and also said they were interested in a resume microformat, and a job posting microformat.. He encouraged me to visit http://microformats.org/discuss/ and share my thoughts with the rest of the community, wich I did.

Unfortunately, I did not have time to keep up with the conversation that started or to contribute something of use. However, less than a month ago I was notified that there is now a cv/resume microformat!!!

Nice work!

Here is a nice idea: Structured Blogging. It looks like microformats or something, but with a couple of plugins already available for Typead and Wordpress.

Paul Kedrosky says that Structured Blogging Will Flop, the reason is simple, people are too lazy to put this (little) extra effort needed to produce “structured blogging” content if they have nothing to gain.

is not going to work in the real world of lazy users who see little in it for them

But… wait! Actually, users may have something to make out of it. Niall Kennedy’s article, Paying bloggers for generating useful content, may just be the answer:

As more and more companies create business models around “consumer generated media” individual publishers are beginning to wonder when they might see a slice of the revenue. I believe there are opportunities for bloggers to be paid for their content without compromising editorial integrity and also rewarding the tool builders.

Richard MacManus has an interesting article about Web 2.0 Products We Need (But Which Don’t Exist Yet). Regulars of this blog will already know my list, but here it is in titles (all 3 of them!):

1. A service that will let us mix feeds according to user-defined rules.
2. Wider use and services that take advantage of geo-tags.
3. A microformats-aware search engine.

I’ve been thinking a lot since I posted yesterday on Yahoo! HotJobs crawler. Does it make sense to have a CV microformat [1]?

What most recruiting engines do is that they ask you to enter your resume, your personal info. So, they gather information on people looking for a job. The thing is there are so many of them. They are also geographicaly targeted (even if they do not admit it). The other thing is there are a lot of people that may not be looking for a job, but they might be interested if a good offer appeared. An other issue has to do with part-time small-project HR needs with very specific needs. How do you locate the one person you need just for a couple of weeks?

A “CV microformat” would make the whole process so much easier if embraced by search engines. Anyone having a personal web page could present their CV in this human-readable-machine-friendly format. Search engines could easily parse and aggregate this information. Integrating this microformat in blogger.com and bloging engines like wordpress, Yahoo! and other on-line services could make hundreds of thousands of CVs available to anyone interested!

Even better we could introduce a similar HR-request-microformat. Instead of just posting a job opening in plain text companies could use a microformat that would make the job of engines like HotJob Crawler much more interesting.

Well? What do you think?

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[1] more on microformats can be found at microformats.org

From Yahoo! Search blog:

So here’s the scoop… Much like My Yahoo! started knocking down walls a couple years ago by inviting anyone with an RSS feed to the aggregation party, HotJobs is using Yahoo! Search to do something quite similar for on-line job listings. They’re pulling in jobs from around the Internet: company web sites, local job listings, specialized job boards, and so on.

I’d like to see the oposite: a CV microformat? This would allow companies to look for people matching their criteria. Just give people a standard micro format to publish their CV!