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Monday, June 28, 2004

Congratulations to Bloglines! On getting into the Time top 50 websites!!! [Thanks Anol for the link] 2:44:26 PM    comments   trackback

Weblog, Aggregate & FOAF your School / Uni / Business etc. Tom comments on the importance & challenge of scaling weblogs to schools / universities (and, I guess, organizations): "...you're looking at managing much larger scale deployments of these technologies than many people have experience with. For example, a weblog for every kid in Will's school would be as big as Weblogs.com, which is, as we've learned, not something one can run easily in one's spare time, even if one wrote the weblog software themselves. Additionally, to do something schoolwide that doesn't turn into a pile of spaghetti, you're going to have to coordinate consistent categories for different classes, or somehow organize membership in multiple class blogs..." [Tuttle SVC] Which takes me back to my original wandering thoughts about Weblog Virtual Learning Environments (good lord... feels like years ago but was more like months!) and how this thought of thing might work... Going on the principle that schools/unis/companies already have data that specifies such things as class/subject/work group it isn't too hard to imagine how this could be roughly conceived of as a data structure for the avoidance of spaghetti :o) (e.g. automated 'spheres' or pre-set aggregator options (this is the neurology feed')). The more I consider the idea of having pre-set links updated in a fixed framework the more I get a bit 'ugghh' and start to think that it might turn out like Xanga or something equally horrible... but on the other hand if you leave it blank & wikiopen you run the risk of the unusableness / confusion of the blank sheet of paper to the majority who want a flexible template (I'm guessing). So yeh... each student / worker has to have their own weblog / newsreader generated for them, this needs to be positioned in a flexible and 'loosely joined' way to a pre-set structure/community using the administrative data already available. As far as managing that sort of load... I don't see why that'd be a particular problem (despite the weblogs.com stuff you'll note that radio.weblogs.com is still going strong... heck you're reading off it!). Some kind of FOAF social networking software would be a wonderful social glue too wouldn't it! 2:40:36 PM    comments   trackback

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