@mattias: I will probably do more detailed posts in the coming months – will perhaps easier to understand then. They will still be rather technical though.

@Diego: Some solution for what you’re referring to would be nice – but let’s first solve how to claim full URL:s :)

@nicoulas: I’m surprised that no other services are doing this. The closest I can think of is the authors defined in RSS/Atom, but that isn’t very usable for us. Some systems, like WordPress, uses the microformat variant of Atom – hAtom – to mark up content – we might be able to use that as an additional way to discover authorship, it’s not as explicit though.

@Andreas: Using RDFa in what way? I think one should be able to discover an author without relying on parsing HTML. That way you can easily discover the author of all kinds of content. RDFa and Microformats could perhaps be good as additional discovery mechanisms though, but we’re of course open to suggestions if you have anything specific regarding RDFa in mind :)