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In summary, social software should be:

Smarter

• XML/RDF/RSS syndication technologies
• Distributed, collaborative metadata
• Ontology development and the Semantic Web
• Adaptive design and context-awareness

Simpler

• Smaller, modular software with common methods and properties
• Web services and shared protocols
• Usability and ‘unfinished’ user experience design
• Shared and open source code

Social

• In the way it is conceived: stakeholder engagement, inclusive process
• In the way it is built: collaborative development, partnership
• In what it does: augments social networking; weblogs, wikis, messaging, etc.
• In how it works: adaptive qualities, personalisation, agent technologies, etc.

w3c xslt engine – http://www.w3.org/2001/05/xslt

jon udell’s xslt radio tutorial – http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/stories/
2002/03/18/anXsltTutorial.html

cancore xsd file – http://cancore.athabascau.ca/schema/cancore_v1.xsd

extending RSS 2 with namespaces- http://www.disobey.com/detergent/2002/extendingrss2/

rss 2.0 validator – http://feeds.archive.org/validator/about.html

http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/

http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/07/17/
communitiesOfPracticeTheStructureForFutureLearning.html

http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/index.shtml

link via: Michelle N. Lamberson, PhD
Director, Learning Technology, The University of British Columbia

 

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All this talk about Trackback, Pingback and the like got me thinking more generally about the issue of ‘lnk typing’. There is lots of stuff out there on this concept but a quick google of this term brings up this piece on the work of Randall Triggs and the innovative work he did in the 80s on a taxonomy of link types. – SWL

Visualization is an old pet topic of mine, so I was delighted to be referred to this new weblog from the company XPLANE via my old friend George Por through his ‘Blog of Collective Intelligence’.

“Even sites that don’t support RSS can work with NewsMonster… NewsMonster incorporates an advanced reputation system to prevent spam and discover and inform you of important news… Rate your favorite and least-favorite websites and share ratings with the online community – automatically! “

I haven’t tried this so it is in no way an endorsement, but I started thinking more about reputation management and the blogosphere after reading the interview posted below (and after reading the blow by blow of that ‘dialogue’ between Messrs Wiley and Downes) and so this seemed particularly interesting. – SWL

– via [infoanarchy]

Interview with Henri Poole, former CEO of Linux distributor MandrakeSoftware who is now involved with Affero, an attempt to build a standard system of reputation measurement for the Internet. – SWL

I wasn’t yet regularly using an aggregator when these pieces were first posted in June 2002, so this was new to me (question – does the blogosphere suffer from collective attention-deficit disorder?) I really like the presentation of these accessibility instructions into 30 bite size chunks, and also how he starts off describing 5 different people with accessibility issues and so frames the whole issue is a more immediately personal context. Well worth the read and good advice, which I will endeavor to follow in a blog re-design sometime in the future. – SWL

new ed tech (& webct blog) from someone at UBC