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Show your love for microformats at SXSW, and you could get one of these t-shirts!

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If you're going to be at SXSWi this year and you dig microformats, find me! You could win a free Microformats Made Simple t-shirt!

The rules are simple:

1. Find me at SXSW (rel="met" is a requirement)
2. Do two of three things:
   • Answer a microformats trivia question. I will have a handful of cards with questions. You pick one.
   • Show me a site where you used microformats. This can be a simple rel microformat or a cool new service that transforms microformats. Up to you.
   • Show/tell me your favorite @emilylewis tweet. No, you don't have to follow me on Twitter, just appreciate me.
3. Get a t-shirt!

To say I had an amazing time at last year's SXSW would be an understatement. So, of course, I'm going back this year.

I'm taking the same approach this time around: flexibility. I'm not planning anything. Yes, I want to make it to Happy Cog'aoke 2. Yes, I want to be sure to catch Stephen Anderson's panel, The Art & Science of Seductive Interactions. Yes, I want to hit the frog design party. But stuff happens … hangovers, running into an old friend, meeting a new friend, tired feet, sudden cravings for single-malt scotch …

I'll make it to the panels I can. I'll catch the parties I can. And I'll let the rest work itself out.

It's time again for me to pimp my book, Microformats Made Simple.

In case you don't know, Microformats Made Simple is 291 pages of easy–to–read explanations of and easy–to–understand markup examples for 20 microformats.

It covers benefits, challenges and new developments. It focuses on semantic markup (POSH for you geeky types). But best of all, it includes my amusing, yet still pathetic, attempts at humor.

It is, simply put, awesome. And you must buy it. Now.

But I realize that me telling you how great and awesome it is just sounds like shameless self promotion. Which it is.

So this time around, my plea to "buy my excellent book" is backed up with real recommendations and impressions from people who've actually read it.