Comments on: New era of blogging http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2005/10/new_era_of_blog Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:58:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Google Base and the rest of the world http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2005/10/new_era_of_blog#comment-4888 Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Google Base and the rest of the world Sat, 26 Nov 2005 03:49:27 +0000 http://marc_blogs_it.myelin.co.nz/?p=2463#comment-4888 [...] So if I was pitching an article to John Markoff - I’d tell him that Google Base represents a new era of blogging, a new level of personal publishing - just like podcasting, vlogging and mohblogging also push teh envelope. [...] [...] So if I was pitching an article to John Markoff - I’d tell him that Google Base represents a new era of blogging, a new level of personal publishing - just like podcasting, vlogging and mohblogging also push teh envelope. [...]

]]> By: Downes http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2005/10/new_era_of_blog#comment-2226 Downes Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://marc_blogs_it.myelin.co.nz/?p=2463#comment-2226 Suggestion: don't call them standards. Call them protocols. Standards you use because you have to. Protocols implies usage on the basis of agreement. IMHO as well, the key benefit is the linkage of resources and people. It supports aggregation through a trusted network of friends rather than at random from the entire blogosphere. Given the ongoing splog crisis, the time is very ripe for such an initiative. Get just as much working as needed to get this off the ground, and launch. Build some quick and dirty tools to allow people to aggregate without relying on the now-crippled services like Technorati and Pubsub. Speed is the key word now. Suggestion: don’t call them standards. Call them protocols.

Standards you use because you have to. Protocols implies usage on the basis of agreement.

IMHO as well, the key benefit is the linkage of resources and people. It supports aggregation through a trusted network of friends rather than at random from the entire blogosphere.

Given the ongoing splog crisis, the time is very ripe for such an initiative.

Get just as much working as needed to get this off the ground, and launch. Build some quick and dirty tools to allow people to aggregate without relying on the now-crippled services like Technorati and Pubsub.

Speed is the key word now.

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