RSS Magic
Will Richardson,
Weblogg-ed,
Aug 17, 2005
The blog conversation on the use of blogs as conversation continues (you almost think they're doing this deliberately to make a point). Will Richardson makes an important point: "Without a fundamental understanding of RSS glue, distributed conversations are fundamentally illogical. How can we call Alan and David's separate posts on this topic a conversation?" But the results generated by RSS readers are not yet sufficiently robust to make this connection clear; we need RSS Referencing to do that. Brian Lamb, citing Gardner Campbell, asks whether today's instructors risk being left out of the conversation altogether. "If we wait for a generational change, we'll be waiting until today's 19-year-olds get their Ph.D.'s and join the academy--if there is an academy by then." It seems, then, that we need more than just a story about digital immigrants - we need working RSS conversations, soon.
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