By Stephen Downes
February 25, 2004
LiveJournal FOAF
LiveJournal,
probably the most tightly knit of all the blogging software
communities (LiveJournal users explicitly identify other
LiveJournal users as 'friends' on their websites), is now
exporting FOAF files - it is only a matter of time now
before other blogging software contains the same function,
and hence, before the Semantic Social Network really takes off.
By Various Authors, LiveJournal, February 25, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
IMS Quarterly Meetings: Zürich, Switzerland,
2004
This summary of the recent IMS meetings in
Zurich highlights a number of European standards
initiatives, such as uch as ProLearn and TELCERT along with American projects
recently sponsored by the Mellon foundation, such as SAKAI
and Lionshare. Discussions at the meeting
included a proposal to extend the specification by adding a
tenth 'accessibility' data element and the development of a
(long overdue) IMS FAQ. By Norm Friesen, February 24, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
RSS: A Big Success In Danger of
Failure
The author argues that "it is clear that
without the use of meta-directories and their standardized
classifications and taxonomies the RSS community is in
danger of collapsing under the weight of its own success
and becoming the 'push' of 2004." Having already achieved
more success than was ever dreamed for push, this danger
appears slight. However, the author successfully taps into
some things that won't work. By Bill Burnham, Burnham's
Beat, reprinted on the Weekly Read, February 20, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
How RSS Can Succeed
I posted this
item in response to RSS: A Big Success In Danger of Failure,
by Bill Burnham. RSS could succeed. It will probably
succeed. But it is important to keep our focus on what it
does well: it allows an individual to scan, filter, and
pass forward. That's all it ever has to do. The network
will do the rest. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web,
February 24, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
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