Five Pertinent Questions

May 15, 2007 at 4:00 PM

I'm only on Chapter 4 of Getting Things Done, so I haven't yet been transformed into a serene model of efficiency. With too much to do, I'm postponing my in-depth interview with John Allsopp—who really is one of the smartest and most interesting people in our web standards world—and asking him just five pertinent (and sometimes impertinent) questions about his new book Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0. I've started the book and I'm delighted that it is clearly and cheerfully written—not some dry tome that you can only understand if you already knew everything in it before you started page one. So, what's all the hoopla about? Are microformats going to change the world? As a web designer, if I don't use them does it mean that I can't sit with the cool kids at lunch? If I'm not especially geeky, can I use these things with ease? John gives us his take on the subject. This also will be the first of a new type of interview we'll be running here, called Five Pertinent Questions—though we'll still be publishing, on occasion, our much longer, in-depth interviews with fascinating people in our community.