"The
<article>
element represents a self-contained composition in a document, page, application, or site and that is, in principle, independently distributable or reusable, e.g. in syndication. This could be a forum post, a magazine or newspaper article, a blog entry, a user-submitted comment, an interactive widget or gadget, or any other independent item of content." - WHATWG's HTML5 Draft Standard - http://whatwg.org/html5
Blog entries are perfect candidates for the new <article>
element, which is designed for syndicated content.
For this recipe, let's start by identifying the major elements of a blog <article>:
There's usually a headline in the form of a heading tag, the blog entry itself consisting of several paragraphs and perhaps one or more images, and some information that usually includes the author's name and other related metadata. Notice this is all self-contained related content.