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Well! what can I say, I'm honoured to announce the birth of a new microformat that has managed to reach the status of Proposal, hAudio.

I say honored because for some bizarre reason I managed to become a contributor whilst I was a the quest to make our very own Podcast more Organic and easier to share. I can honestly say that hAudio was one of the most hotly debated and well designed microformats since hAtom, and as a result the Format instead of taking the suggested eight weeks to complete, ended up finally taking twenty one contributors nearly twice as long.

The full proposal and full Schema can be found at http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-proposal

The demo page used for testing, and created during the hAudio discussion can be found at http://weborganics.co.uk/haudio

I would like to give a special "nod" to one or two of the guys who headed up the discussion and design of haudio, Manu Sporny who was the leader of the whole audio info discussion, without his guidance and Logic I doubt hAudio would ever been finished. Brian Suda and Tantek Çelik who kept us from straying too far beyond the "cow paths" Scott Reynen, David Janes, and Andy Mabbett all hot debaters and seasoned microformateers, who guided those of us who were not to sure where the cow path was. For my part well, my Ideas may have been a bit off the mark a little, Indeed most would say I found it hard keeping to the job at hand. In the end I think everyone that was involved helped create the most well designed microformat there is to date.