Weblogs : RSS Conversations. Reacting to Nico Macdonald's article about the future of blogging, Roland Tanglao describes how PubSub tracks RSS conversations using citation titles and urls. Analyzing meaningful conventions such as "by way of", "has posted", "about", and "responded to" can go a long way toward bringing meaning to RSS content (without troubling writers with new markup or additional steps in the process). [Planet RDF]  8:02:10 AM   [Feedback ]  

Weblogs : The Future of Blogging. Ahead of BloggerCon II , Nico Macdonald wrote an interesting article for The Register in which he discussed blog journalism and speculated on future developments in the blogosphere. Considering the recent discussions about RSS catgegorization, blog-to-blog conversations, and using DMOZ, this struck me: We also need to find ways to categorise posts � to bring the kind of structure that Yahoo! brought to information on the Web � and the seeds of this concept can be seen in Moveable Type, NewsMonster and other tools. We also need to find ways of assigning priority to posts based on who wrote them ... [Planet RDF]  8:01:54 AM   [Feedback ]