Watching the development of aggregation and syndication very much from the sideline is interesting, including for reasons which have nothing directly about with the prospects for the output. Be clear ~ it may be a wonder on the level of HTML or it may be impractical and seize up the internet if everyone syndicates everything to everything all the time everywhere. What is also interesting is possibly witnessing the birth of either the consulting guru or the ham radio operators of the 21st century. These are cats in a cabal who hold workshops, think out loud about the possible, have the faith in a big way, proclaim. If successful, these are your future prophets. If not, they are geeks who will make you hate your computer by 2006.
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David - January 17, 2004 12:11 PM
There's a whole other side to this story, believe me. Check out:<p>
http://dannyayers.com<p>
http://diveintomark.org
Alan - January 17, 2004 1:03 PM
[I got you all linky there.]<p>
Good points. There is the issue of likely assertion of the proprietary nature of the technology as well as the bugs. What I really wonder about is the unleashing of the thing as a common tool. This may never happen as, frankly, few care to know what others subscribe to. If, however, it is foisted at some point without the structure to sustain the insane levels of traffic that would cause, it will eat what it loves.<p>Also there is the matter somewhat related to property right: the gurufication of the idea. If we are interested in the democratic broad base of blogging, why do we want to create an elitist system like top blogs, top feeds. It is just the consulterati gone mad, creating a concept to ensure that the creator is a leader in something, getting that something publicly considered important and then consulting on the concept: something seen with the not-word "usability". Sadly, the need to guru-fy can cause foistation and compromise of infrastrucure without anyone benefiting other than the self-guru. Then expect Nortel to jump on bandwagon when it realizes this means increased sales of bandwidth systems without increased utility to the individual.
David - January 17, 2004 4:36 PM
Well, I'm not sure if there's a problem with top feeds -- it's a kind of democratic vote -- except for it really needs to be narrowed by "domains of information" of some sort. What's the top 100 blogs in Canada. What's the top 10 blogs anywhere that link to Alan or Alan links to. That sort of thing...
Alan - January 18, 2004 12:18 PM
But why should anyone care what I link to but do not take the time to specifcally remark upon?
David - January 18, 2004 7:50 PM
Well, that's what is interesting about the top 100 OPML -- it stuff they are subscribing to in their aggregator: i.e. they are reading it!
Arthur - January 18, 2004 8:01 PM
it stuff they are subscribing to in their aggregator: i.e. they are reading it!
The A-list Bloggers? Who cares <g>
Alan - January 18, 2004 8:56 PM
There is something problematic for me with advocation of a structure to perpetuate and entrench the A-list bloggers as they will be the voices for the movement and therefore the consultants. It is not a process of increasing the number of voices heard but rather effectively reducing it - while at the same time using words like "citizen bloggers". There is a falsity to it all I find disappointing I suppose.
David Janes - January 19, 2004 9:17 AM
Ithere was better data mining tools, one could start drawing inferences such as ( Ranting and Roaring, GenX at 40 ) -> [ Mike Campbell, ...] from the same underlying data that's driving the top list.
Alan - January 19, 2004 10:03 AM
Well taht is it - but is anyone trying to create better data mining or just a focused popularity contest. I am not interested in what I know and easily known but what is interesting, related but tangential. The web and it seems RSS are crap for that unless you go back to the effective manual option - surfing.
David Janes - January 19, 2004 5:08 PM
On this subject of which, see my post on Google this morning. Sad.