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Sunday, July 06, 2003

Microcontent is not homogenous. Think atoms, molecules, and systems.. Posts are atoms, says Anil.. Metaphor hell... Atoms come in various shapes and weights and have varied components. For a periodic table of elements: The Component Blog. Microcontent in many forms. Molecules are atoms combined. Their properties vary with their elements, organization, and how everything is glued together. Think of this as a subset of a weblog. Maybe a channel, or posts with inferred mutual relevance. Throw enough atoms or molecules together, and you get complex things. Organisms, crystals, buildings. Newsreaders, journals, blogs, photoblogs, wikiblogs, email clients, calendars, collaborative blogs, vending machine blogs. That's why the not-Echo project must provide a framework for: A rapidly growing Periodic Table of Elements [not just the RSS .92 post structure], Attributes and protocols that permit more kinds of interconnection among various forms of microcontent, and A basis for creating new systems and structures from the many microntent flavors and structures. This is the path to the Adaptive Blogosphere. [a klog apart] 9:46:09 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Chris Pirillo's Amazon feeds are just the first step towards demonstrating what I would like to see:  a single site with all feeds available in combination with the ability to create synthetic feeds on the fly (from Google, Amazon, etc.).  [John Robb's Weblog] 7:23:29 AM  comment []  Trackback []     One thing I always wanted to do is to pull together experts in combination with an online advertising agency to build an About.com on the cheap using weblogs.  I think I have the advertising agency that would pay the bills.  Would any be interested in doing this? It would be pure collaborative revenue share and I think lots of fun.    [John Robb's Weblog] 7:22:19 AM  comment []  Trackback []     This is going to be really cool when it's done. Check this out.... [John Robb's Weblog] 7:21:42 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Slow on the uptake. If'n I was asking for a sign, and then got struck with lightning, I'd figure God was unhappy with me. [Blogcritics] 7:19:39 AM  comment []  Trackback []     And if weblogs are agrarian, what will the analagous industrial or corporate social practices be? If information foraging is the metaphor, are weblogs the ur-farms of the knowledge economy?. Information Foraging. Information Foraging: "Information foraging is the most important concept to emerge from Human-Computer Interaction research since 1993. Developed at Xerox PARC by Stuart Card, Peter Pirolli, and colleagues, information foraging uses the analogy of wild animals gathering food to analyze how humans collect information online." [elearnspace blog] I think you could make a pretty easy argument linking the upsurge in weblog popularity to how well tuned they are to supporting effective information foraging. Add in good aggregators and perhaps we have the first hints of the knowledge economy equivalent of the transition from hunter-gatherer cultures to agriculture. [McGee's Musings] 7:17:53 AM  comment []  Trackback []

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