http://www.owenkelly.net/2007/03/21/structured-blogging-digging-inside/

I got interested in the structured blogging plug-in (and the ideas behind it) and I have tweaked the WordPress plug-in to provide excerpts – because I wanted them too

I also altered the main display a bit.

I have begun adding book reviews to my site. There are only two at the moment but you can see the result from here where the excerpts are: http://www.owenkelly.net/category/reviews

In an ideal world, this type of thing would be part of the blogging platform. Maybe the Six Apart guys will do something similar with Vox?

Hope that made sense now

I found some serious limitations regarding this wp plugin, one of those are the ones I am talking here.

I know what does but if I insert that tag in my review it seems to mess up the formating, as it seems to break some other tags so that it breaks my theme – I’ll leave it like that for you to check out until tomorrow morning. Same for the other nextpage tag.

The other problems with this plugin are that it takes out the wp editor, I don’t see the wysiwyg and code editor anymore I just see one editor, so I can’t change any “code”…

Furthermore the plugins I used for inputting meta keywords and meta description right from my write post page don’t work with this microformats plugin anymore.

And the excerpt has disappeared

I will gladly check out the links to the loudervoice site and see what it is all about.

thx for your help and time

I’m not 100% sure what you are asking in the first question. Is it the same as this question on the Wordpress Codex? Does that not work in a Structured Blogging Post?

So you want to do some kind of “excerpts” of your posts on the main page and then the full contents when you click on an individual review? Nice!

If there is a problem with doing this in an SB post, it is unlikely to be fixed since the Structured Blogging initiative has pretty much come to a halt due to lack of developers and/or funding.

We’re actually building a business called LouderVoice at the moment where we are taking a pure microformats approach to the reviews (no plug-in necessary and no doubling of the markup like SB). Look at the review I did yesterday to see what the output looks like (still rough, but it’ll be better when we launch).

The key feature of LouderVoice is that we will aggregate reviews from registered bloggers and allow people to search for reviews and rate them, group them etc. But they will always read the reviews on the actual blogs not on our site. Sign up for the upcoming Beta2 test phase over at LouderVoice if you are interested.

I noticed your blog is one of the first to use this microformats, you are even listed on their site, and I was just curious if ther is a way to use “more”-tags inside a review?

I tried my first review here: http://yongfook.com/ and I would like to be able not to show the full review on the mainpage, maybe just right to where review starts below the ratings…

can you give me a clue how to do that or maybe its not possible?

The people who drive me crazy are the ones selling rubbish at inflated prices. And there does seem to be a large number of those in every type of business at the minute.

What they forget is that when the economy takes a dive, we’ll all remember who are the good uns and who are the bad uns and we’ll still be giving our money to the good uns.

Scale is a problem for Ireland. The big difference between here and the US is that people eat out far more over there which gives restaurants the required economy of scale. I ate out with an Irish couple based in Texas in January and they told me that they eat in restaurants 9 nights out of 10!

The population of Austin is only about 650,000 yet every street was jammed with restaurants of every style and level. I wouldn’t be surprised if the restaurant density was more than 10 times that of Dublin.

But I would love to know how Derry manages to be so cheap. I’m guessing both wages and rent/rates are far lower?

Ireland is bound to be expensive given the over-heated economy, the high wages, and astronomical cost of real estate. For visitors, the strength of the euro isn’t helping either (although it’s a nice bonus for us when we go state-side).

I can’t speak for restaurants, but in our situation our rent in Killarney is higher than London and similar to New York. Our rent in Dingle went up 40% this year. Rates in Killarney increased by 5K. Energy went up 25%, etc., etc., etc. Given this state of affairs, our prices are only going to move in one direction.

I am well aware of the anger about high prices, but what’s the alternative? As in Conor’s comment, a smart cookie I know opened a restaurant after seeing the need for cheap dining options. His food was decent and very reasonable, and he was so busy that everyone thought he was doing well. He came to me looking for advice last year, at his wits end after losing 30K over three years, and what makes it worse is that he didn’t pay himself a salary during that period. His life savings are gone. What could I say except “Get a job or raise your prices?”

Apparently they exist, but I don’t personally know anyone who is creaming it in the restaurant or artisian food business here. Ireland is a very, very expensive place to do business.

We should be happy that high Irish wages allow people to afford those expensive meals out, but we should demand quality in exchange. That at least makes the price more palatable.

Good for lunch or dinner, I don’t think they take reservations. Last there in 2004 I think so hopefully things haven’t gone downhill since.

As for value in Ireland, you are 100% right. Even a trip north to Derry reminded me of how crazy restaurant prices are down here. So when I say “great value”, it is relative to other places here rather than globally.

I would love for an Irish restauranteur to take a meal that they offer and break down the cost of it into raw materials, labour, building, taxes, margin etc so we could see why prices are so bad here.

I can’t believe everyone is gouging us, otherwise some smart cookie would open up a cheap but good place and fill it to the rafters every night.

On a general point, a single visit to Canada was enough to destroy Ireland as a place to enjoy eating out, since you become acutely conscious of the appalling value for money you get back home. It’s great to live here in Toronto for the last couple of years because when people visit and you take them to dinner you can really go for it and spend the same as a fairly ordinary meal in Cork.

Everyone was dubious when I put it in front of them and the consensus was that that it was neither good nor bad just odd.

So I did have a giggle when I saw the same thing on the menu last night. I should have got it, I’m guessing it would be a “tad” better than the thing I cooked.

I should get the Seasons book because I loved his verbal description of some of his winter recipes on Winter Food recently. Speaking of which, I must have a listen to your episode!

His cookbooks are also well worth seeking out. I have “Seasons” and everything I’ve made from it has gone down a treat…