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Stephen Downes

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This is the tip of the iceberg. "A Feedpaper is a web-based and RSS-enabled micropublication on any topic of its creators choosing. Creating a Feedpaper enables its publisher to blend, track, and share information on any topic." As Robin Good writes, "The discovery is the unlimited and yet untapped power we now have to search, filter, aggregate and create focussed news/information channels with the only support of our know-how, culture, experience and a little unknown free technology called: RSS." Picking up on the idea of the self organizing network, he described the "NewsMaster," a professional who creates "niche Web site and information channels on very specific topics and with a possible significant rewarding economy."

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