Want to find out what microcontent means and the implications for design? Richard McManus is writing a series of posts on it at Read/Write web. Part 1 is up now.
As I’ll outline in this series, microcontent design involves: microchunking your content, taking advantage of open standards, employing microformats, letting users subscribe to all kinds of RSS feeds, freeing your content via APIs and other means, designing for re-use of information, monetizing it, and more.