The Tree of Knowledge, that is.
Why can't we have the following components of the internet put together today:
- open source collaboration
- creating a central web application which
- uses RSS aggregation
- to search by keyword
- to report on everything available on the internet
- and file it in publicly available space
- classified according to an taxonomy of all understanding cascading from the general to specific in every field.
Add open source blogging tools available free with RSS feeds and all writers can pour what is known into the system by writing on their own pages. An automated global wiki. The indexed internet, the free digital usable useful library.
Comments
Rob Paterson - November 2, 2003 10:11 am
I am sure that it will come. I think that the RSS is the pivoting tool that will enable this to unfold. I find that RSS allows me to make my choice and to have a "web" of my own choice - my info source. If someone technically does what tyou say - along the lines of a linux project - then the costs of such a resource would be very low as well = high pick up.
Maybe Active words added in too?
Alan - November 2, 2003 6:39 pm
The trouble with my own net is that it presumes I know what I am already interested in. I am most interested in what I do not yet know. How would Active words tie in. I am not so up to speed with Buzz's widget.
Rob Paterson - November 2, 2003 6:51 pm
As I understasnd it it can work like an aggregator for key words. So if I doubled spaced after the word "Alan" (the technique) it would open your blog or whatever Alan link I had set up - including in my own c drive. Very simple and powerful