HTML5 Developers: Starter on Microdata

Webmonkey provides a nice little explanation of what microdata is, plus a very good example and a link to data-vocabulary.org, a good starting point for ensuring that search spiders don't lose the plot.

SEO: still important, and be glad. The roadmaps that exist today are sufficiently rich that it doesn't have to feel like alchemy.

How Google Instant Will Change Search

Read. Weep. (Because ha-ha, more work for you!!!!! all of us.)