Greg has some thoughts on GUIDs in RSS. I never really did get why this was needed, but I always assumed that was just because I hadn't thought about it enough. Seems to me that the aggregator should skip any GUIDs its already seen, but weblogging software should give the user the ability to give an existing post a new GUID for the situation where siginificant (as defined by the user) changes to an existing post are made. [Simon Fell]

(SOURCE:Scripting News)-Amen!
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Most people tend to think of RSS feeds as being for normal text content, such as blog postings. However, RSS feeds can be used in other ways. For example, why not use RSS feeds to keep customers aware of new products and services? We are doing something like this with Trodo's RSS feeds. You can subscribe to see when new items are added to Trodo. Pretty cool, eh? As far as I know, no one else is using RSS in this way. Most people are stuck thinking about RSS as being for news only. Too bad.
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

(SOURCE:"aklogapart")-Great idea! Licensing an RSS reader and giving it free to your customers so that they can read your public RSS feeds is a great way to keep your customers current and part of your conversation.
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J.D. Lasica introduces RSS readers in News That Comes to You, an article for the Online Journalism Review. via WebWord, who suggests "Why not use RSS feeds to keep customers aware of new products and services?" Absolutely. The only drawback? 99% of your customers don't have newsreaders. A solution? 1. License a newsreader client.
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

(SOURCE:Scripting News)-Cool vision. Yet another UserLand innovation that is finally start to catch on. If it's not BitTorrent then some other P2P tech will make this a reality!
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Obviously I see the combination of rss enclosures being used to hand off a url to a BitTorrent file, that automatically joins that file's network, downloads all relevant bits into the right places and notifies the subscriber of the new goodies. I could be totally off base, but it seems plausible this would work and be easily clonable in any similar software. Ofcourse we need to take baby steps first and get other aggregators to do cool things with enclosures. I've learned it's easier for developers to make systems like the one I dream of, if they have some context to work in. So I'll contribute by authoring my webservice of cool video clips using rss enclosures. One a day. Let's have some fun!
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

(SOURCE:"boing")-Triumph of "low-tech" knowledgement. Knowledge Management is dead! Klogging using low-tech stuff like blogs and Google Appliances is king! <quote> It's difficult to imagine getting more from a $23,000 investment in search technology than the city of San Diego has gotten from its deployment of a Google Inc. search appliance. </quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

<quote> Secrecy has long been a hallmark of the software development process: Let too many people know too much about what you're working on too early, and somebody might steal your ideas. More on development But a growing array of big-name software developers are finding they can make better software if they leave the doors open, by sharing information with potential customers from the start and incorporating their feedback into development decisions. While developers of games software have used this method for years, business software makers are now also catching on. Web logs (commonly known as "blogs"), message boards and other online forums are becoming increasingly important vehicles for developers to attract customers--and development talent--well before an application even enters the beta stage. </quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

(SOURCE:"mcgee")-I think this is great but the term klog or even blog is better than b-blog!
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B-blogs can offer organizations a platform where information, data, and opinion can be shared and traded among employees, customers, partners, and prospects in a way previously impossible: a two-way, open exchange. Companies can (and should) encourage self-publishing from all corners of the organization. Employees who want to post information should no longer have to go through the corporate site's marketing gatekeepers to post. Suddenly, the best thinkers in a company will have a digital voice they can manage and control themselves
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

(SOURCE:"markpasc.blog")-Gotta do this when I get home!
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So you want to end referrer abuse, like l.m. orchard did in AmphetaDesk, but you use Radio? Well:
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

Some people are taking the concept of weblogs and applying it to the wider concept of knowledge management. The result is k-logging ("knowledge-logging"). But will it catch on - will your employer dump Lotus Notes databases in favour of browsers and blog-style brain-dumps? [WriteTheWeb]

This is a test of Tim Knip's Groove interop tool for Radio, which if successful will post this item I am writing in a Groove discussion tool to my blog. As Tim noted a few days ago, the identity URL has migrated into the SOAP header. I'm not sure if this version of grooveInterop.root accounts for that or not. Let's see... ... [Jon's Radio]

When you install Tim Knip's Groove/Radio interop tool you specify three tools in a shared space. First, a discussion tool whose items are sent to your blog. Second, a files tool whose contents are upstreamed. Third, another discussion tool that collects the RSS items fetched by your news aggregator. ... [Jon's Radio]

San Francisco Chronicle is reporting on TimBL's speech to NSF.  The article makes a few implications which I think are misleading but common.  First, the title "could improve web searches" really misses the point.  You could have said the same about the original WWW, and one imagines a 1992 San Francisco Chronicle article headline heralding "CERN researcher aims to improve scientific publication searches".  The second gripe I have is with their gratuitous quote from a token nabob saying "nobody will add the markup to their web pages", which completely misses the point.  Semantic Web isn't about adding META tags to your HTML pages; such arguments are ignorant straw men.

But there were some nice things in the article.  Tim made the point that "web services" are about performing remote operations.  When viewed in high contrast, "web services" build a web of interconnected verbs, while "semantic web" builds a web of interconnected nouns.  It was encouraging to see a journalist relaying the message that the two worlds will be complimentary, rather than succumb to the typical Zoroastrian storyline.

[Better Living Through Software]

David Sifry has been making improvements to Technorati. He writes about them here and here.

Also, Connected: Nodes & Networks is a new Corante blog by Sarah Lai Stirland, whose eponymous blog is at that last link.

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