Merci, Pierre! Pierre Pilon generously explained what he knew about that conference and its history ("Extreme Markup Languages c'est la conférence XML geek chic"), and provided a few names of people I should pay attention to. What do you think? [] links to this post 9:45:10 AM
Great interview with thinker and publisher Tim O'Reilly (via Scripting News) "I'd also say that you don't just want to pay attention to companies, but to individuals. There's a kind of technology progression, in which individual hackers -- the folks who are comfortable enough with computers to make them do what they want, and who aren't dependent on vendor-supplied solutions -- show us future directions. Eventually entrepreneurs take what the hackers have done and make it more accessible for ordinary users. And then someone figures out how to turn it into a platform on which the cycle can repeat at a higher level."
I was meaning to blog this overview by Jim but Stephen beat me to the punch.
A Look at Recent User Level Activity in the RSS World. The point of this interesting survey is to look at RSS adoption in the corporate and consulting community. Thus we see technology analyst firms, such as Forrester and Jupiter Research, using the format, as well as publishers, magazines and businesses. Writes the author, "Perhaps what's notable here is the shift in focus to actually thinking about increasing the value to customers." The item concludes with some links to speculation about the future and long term impact of RSS. Good article, many links. [OLDaily]
This is great news. Sebastian will be teaching a course on personal webpublishing and learning. I can't think of anyone better positioned to give such a course. Hopefully a lot of the material will be on the Web (and eventually translated into English (or French)!)
It is set. This fall I will teach a course titled "Personal Webpublishing Systems and Weblogs in the context of learning, teaching, and knowledge managment" in the Media Pedagogy program at the University of Augsburg, Germany. [...]
The major challenge will be to construct an environment and some events that will allow for the exploration of personal Webpublishing tools and practices while working on some authentic learning tasks. The results of these activities should be documented through the production of artifacts that can be published, shared, syndicated, and that would serve a purpose beyond the course.
So far so good... will need to start planning this out in the coming weeks. If you have worked on something similar, have some ideas to share, tales to tell, tips and suggestions... just let me know either through email, comments to this post, or your own personal Webpublising outlet. [Sebastian Fiedler]
