Lively reaction to this piece on the role of Weblogs in education from David Carraher at Harvard. link [Reconstructed Technologist]
5:32:56 PM    
  
Back in December, John Robb started a discussion group about the use of weblogs for knowledge management in corporations and non-profit organizations. As head honcho over at Userland, he has a lot to say about the evolution of blogging as an application, and the K-logs is a great soapbox. What is really nice is that he shares it with others Choosing to use a groups discussion instead of a weblog is especially noteworthy for the head of one of the most visible weblog application developers. Note: there has't been much activity in the group since December, but the old posts are worth a read. Back then he posted a comment on the use of weblogs in schools. It's worth a read. [Reconstructed Technologist]
5:31:41 PM    
  
RSS Needs Fixing. (SOURCE:"timb")-Don't know if RSS needs to be "fixed"; I think it just needs to be "evolved".
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There are two big problems with RSS that aren't going away and are just going to have to be fixed to avoid a train-wreck, given the way this thing is taking off. They are first, what can go in a , and second, the issue of relative URIs. (Warning: yet another incestuous self-referential post by a blogger about blogging, of interest only to syndication geeks.) (Substantially updated 11AM Pacific time)
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: WebCMS]
5:30:51 PM    
  
RSS 1.0 advantages. I think RSS 2.0 can do the job with minor tweaks but I have to read this carefully to see if that's actually true.
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I typed this up after seeing Dave's first comment here : Raw Blog: Comment, since then there have been a few follow ups...
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: WebCMS]
5:30:27 PM    
  
Sam Ruby -Why we should iterate the RSS format to use optional namespaces. Sam kicks butt in these posts (we're lucky to have his analytical clarity in the blogging community):

• Ghosts of RSS past
• RSS: it's not just for syndication anymore
• RSS namespace proposal

<quote> Summary: At a minimum, I'd like to see an optional namespace be identified for items. Ideally, this would work for channels too. Nothing more need be done. </quote> [Roland Tanglao: WebCMS]
5:30:05 PM    
  
Short piece on link types and Randall Triggs from Hypertext Now. All this talk about Trackback, Pingback and the like got me thinking more generally about the issue of 'lnk typing'. There is lots of stuff out there on this concept but a quick google of this term brings up this piece on the work of Randall Triggs and the innovative work he did in the 80s on a taxonomy of link types. - SWL [EdTechPost]
5:29:04 PM    
  
Don Box describes "a magic directory that acts like a transmit queue." That's upstreaming, of course. A lot more to it than meets the eye, and it's exactly what should be baked into the OS (with open APIs for apps to hook in). Maybe this is the moment we can really collaborate on this stuff. [Scripting News]
5:27:18 PM