Tooting my own horn. Sorry. (01)
>At 07:42 AM 5/12/2003, David P. Janes wrote:
> >The RSS "disappears" after hours or days, whereas the blog persists. Surely
> >I can't be the only person who thinks this loss of information is a fairly
> >massive problem?
>
>This particular issue really does help make the case for something that Sam
>Hunting and I have been developing (I'm sure we are not the only people on
>this planet thinking this way).
>
>We fairly strongly believe that if all (read: as many as possible)
>syndications get read on a continuous basis and are federated into a topic
>map -- which, BTW, does not copy any of the content of the blogs (or other
>syndications) but, rather, points to them in a RESTful way, then the issue
>raised (disappearing syndications) is reduced or eliminated, and, at the
>same time, far more room for linking and annotations can occur because the
>topic map, itself, is a document that resides on the Web. I may have said
>this before in this forum, so please forgive the duplication if that is the
>case. Slides for a presentation I recently gave in service of Tom
>Munnecke's Uplift Academy project (see: http://www.givingspace.org) can be
>found at http://www.nexist.org/rss/slides/
>
>As the slides will show, federation (not aggregation) can be accomplished
>in a distributed, even redundant fashion, and it then becomes possible to
>merge those federations into a larger, single topic map, one that's
>available on the Web at many different URLs, thus satisfying the need for
>distributed, collaborative processing of syndications.
>
>The slides also speak to the future of such a federation: the ability to
>mine the content of syndicated documents, looking for keywords and phrases,
>using those keywords and phrases as fodder for google searches in service
>of augmenting the communities of practice that participate in such a
>federation.
>
>There is a social side to this. The technical side, that of tweaking the
>RSS to satisfy the needs of a topic map builder, are almost trivial:
>mostly, the required tags already exist. It's the social side: appropriate
>use of those tags, that counts.
>
>Sam Hunting and I occasionally perform vast feats of consulting under the
>moniker: "Federating Cognition In The Wild".
>
>We would argue that there exists, today, just one type of blogger: the
>"wild type". (biological metaphor, sorry). I personally conjecture that, in
>the same sense that serious bloggers make judicious use of FOAF, trackback,
>and all the other nifty stuff the blogosphere is churning out, "wild types"
>will eventually become "topic types" as they grok and begin to exploit the
>tremendous synergy that can emerge when they are thinking in terms of their
>contribution to a topic map just as much as they are thinking about their
>contribution to the thread(s) in which they rant.
>
>Always happy to entertain comments and criticisms of this proposed paradigm
>shift in human collaboration.
>
>Cheers
>Jack (02)
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