Monday, March 03, 2008

blogging and you don't know it

I was talking to a couple of people about RSS and blogs today and suddenly we all realised that if you RSS enable different parts of your site, even if you don't have a site blog, the material will still appear blog-like in an RSS feedreader.

And then later on, Russ Weakley came into discuss the planned changes to the Australian Museum website - which involve tagging (both author & user generated) and reader comments.

Mix the two together (RSS + Tags + User Generated Content coupled with Organisational Content) and blogs disappear - instead everything is a blog (but not as we know it, Jim).

One possible future is that the majority of websites become hyperblogs such as this and the majority of intranets become next-gen wikis.

Go figure.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

As chair of the Web 2.0 Welcoming Committee, I'd like to extend our warm invitation to the exciting next generation of the World Wide Web.

You'll be receiving your kit in 6 to 8 weeks.

In the meantime, remember to avoid branding your Web 2.0 website with statements such as "Now with RSS".

Matt Moore said...

6-8 weeks? What are you doing? Knitting it in Ruby from scratch? I want my Web 2.0 kit now, you melonfarmer!!!!