Ted Ritzer: RSSthe latest & greatest on RSS(Untitled)- November 18, 2003 from Marc Canter's blog, an article worth repeating, re Dave Winer's Distributed Directories idea: I thought I'd turn you on to a couple of related sites out there - that are doing things like what Dave is doing. 1. Phil Pearson's TopicExchange.com. Go to this public site. Define channeltopic of interest (I choose TheMatrix.) Subscribe to any channel you wish (via RSS of course.) Folks can contirbute to channels via Trackback or by manually posting to that channel. .http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/rss/2003/11/17.html#a3255 Star Tree Generator for Distributed Directory Navigation- November 14, 2003 Building upon Dave Winer's idea of using the outliner in radio to build OPML based distributed directories, I would add the following idea, to add a graphical navigation ability similiar to Star Trees. One good example of a hierarchial approach to data visualization is found at: http:www.inxight.commap Currently they give away their star tree creator software, if you try the above link, you will see a concrete exmpale that helps you navigate their website. Now what if we had the ability to...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/rss/2003/11/13.html#a3233 (Untitled)- November 14, 2003 An important perspective re categories from Marc's Voice see below: Terminology disconnect One of the most exicting things to happen in a long time to to watch Dave Winer discover topics, knowledge management and categorization. And like any true visionary, entrepreneur software guy - Dave is putting his enlightenment where his mouth is - into his code. But at this point - I think it's fair to say that the word 'category' is being over-used, or shall I say politely...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/rss/2003/11/13.html#a3228 |