Friday, February 28, 2003

TECH TALK: RSS, Blogs and Beyond: Blogs (Part 2). Blogs are not yet quite organized, and there’s plenty of work happening to do so. There have been a number of initiatives to map blogspace. Blogdex and Daypop provide information to what’s hot right now in the world of blogs. They do so by analysing what bloggers are linking to and discussing. The problem I see is that this is too generic – what I care about is what’s hot in my “microcommunity”. I’d like to know what’s hot among the bloggers that I track, and what they are reading. This is not yet available. Technorati and our own BlogStreet... [E M E R G I C . o r g] 9:13:40 AM

Blogger's News Aggregator. Seeing this News Aggregator for Weblogs At Harvard gives me an idea - perhaps we could look at a service in BlogStreet which takes the blogroll or neighbourhood of bloggers (which we have identified) and then make a public page which creates a news aggregator page for each of the bloggers. What this does is shows me (and others) the updates happening on the bloggers of interest to me - it takes information filtering one-level deeper. So, if I like Kevin Werbach and his blog, then I can now see not just his neighbourhood which comprises his blogroll and related... [E M E R G I C . o r g] 9:13:06 AM