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Stephen Downes

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This link is to the main blog page because the permalinks are returning page errors. But if you click right away you should see the author's discussion of a paper which, for unrelated reasons, I can't link to yet. I agree with the author in the sense that RSS is a promising technology still looking for the killer application. It will come, because as the author notes, weblogs are maven enablers. What that means is that they create a class of people and sites who act as essential clearing houses on a given subject. People start sending them links. Now the author writes that teachers don't have time to become mavens. Perhaps not. But over time, it will be the other stuff (like administrative duties), not weblogs, that will have to take the back seat.

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