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:

1. A rapidly growing Periodic Table of Elements [not just the RSS .92 post structure],
2. Attributes and protocols that permit more kinds of interconnection among various forms of microcontent, and
3. 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    

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    

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    

This is going to be really cool when it's done.

Check this out.... [John Robb's Weblog]

7:21:42 AM