Well formed weblog entry

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Required:

• author
• well formed content: HTML (with characters properly escaped, tags perfectly nested and closed), images, audio, video, etc. Each piece should specify its media type.
• permalink
• creation date

Via: Mark Pilgrim: The W’s of Weblogging, which offers a further discussion.

This is analogically to the so-called »big W’s« of journalism, which are »What, When, Where and Who« (in different orders), or even a phonecall to »999«.

Update: Joe Gregorio is covering the discussion.