I don’t mean to make it sound easy. hNews is in its infancy and its effectiveness will be largely determined by its adoption rate. If it becomes a de facto standard for online news, and is built into major content management systems, then suddenly a world of things become possible. But if hNews is used by only a few news organizations, its value will be greatly diminished. Success requires Herculean effort by the hNews team, open-minded thinking by major news organizations and CMS developers, and the backing of major Web standards bodies.

But this is one microformat that’s worth some major effort.

Correction of the Week

“On November 5 we translated the name of Ed and Nancy Kienholz’s artwork at the National Gallery, The Hoerengracht, as ‘Gentlemen’s Canal’. This should have read ‘Whore’s Canal’. We apologise for the error.” – The Times (U.K.)

Update 2:10 PM, 11/13/2009: This article was updated after publication to note that hNews also receives funding from the MacArthur Foundation.

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