Jon just forwarded me a link to this post in praise of our search engine.

I love reading this kind of stuff. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside to know that some people appreciate the effort and (surprising, given who we are) thought that we put into the site.

That being said, while the search engine was the impetus to actually get all this meta-data added (thank you to all our dedicated readers who do this for us), what I'd really like to do is get some sort of comic RDF schema that we could be using to embed this data in the page next to every strip. Sluggy (I shouldn't link, since he seems to have a policy of never linking to anybody, which I think has something to do with his recent woes, but that's a story for a different time, so...whatever) enters a subset of the information that we do. I think that if we formalized something based on our systems, it would be pretty neat, and open up a way for other people to do aggregators, readers, cross-site searches, or probably much cooler apps based on any strip that utilized these formats. Unfortunately,I know nothing about RDF and never seem to have the time to learn, so it's one of those "wouldn't it be cool" projects that just languishes inside my brain. David Bort,who we know from Comic-Con, seemed to have some interest in working on this for us, but it's a major headache to think about.

We came up with this in the bar a few weeks ago, and Jon had to work it into the strip because it was just too funny. The current Republican strategy of running fictional characters for office was just begging for some extra exposure. We'll probably do stickers at some point too,but for now,I can't wait to get my Republicans For Voldemort t-shirt.