Monday, August 4, 2003

Dan Gillmor, writing for Computerworld: “People will discover, sooner or later, that this format can save time and money—and may be one of tomorrow’s keys to communications.” [Ranchero.com] Exactly. My scientific syndication dream is to have many feeds, by author, subject, and individual selection, which we can subscribe to find what is happening in our areas of interest. With a RSS reader/poster like NetNewsWire, individual researchers could propagate their recent readings, favorites, comments, enriching the scientific commons. 1:53:11 PM

John Palfrey: The substance that seems to matter most is some combination of the following: openness on the Net; interoperability; true consumer and technologist choice; and effectiveness and stability of the technology. [Scripting News] I am advocating the creation of RSS feeds for online scientific journals, preprint archives, and the Web sites of individual researchers to help return science to scientists. Protocol wars can only slow us down. 1:34:39 PM