Technology I - outline

Submitted by Roland Tanglao on Mon, 12/05/2005 - 11:02.
  • Technology I for Blogs n Dogs
  • all stuff mentioned here is tagged blogsndogstech on delicious so you can find it
  • Conclusion
    • 1. Develop a personal web strategy
      • for becoming web literate, staying current and finding what you want and need and creating what you want and need without information overload
      • find online human filters and subscribe to them; get friendly with local "Web 2.0" geeks, meet people at meetups and conferences
    • 2. Learn the tools you need - some people call the current conversational tools and tools like them "Web 2.0" - just letting you know but it's just really the read/write web or the next version of the web
      • tools are crude but "good enough" learn now and reap the benefits
    • 3. Converse, participate and consume using the tools (telephone graphic)
  • It's about conversation .It's about one or more of art, doing it for yourself or going all pro and smooth. It's about creating and consumption on your terms
  • RSS is at the heart of this conversation
  • What is RSS
  • How does RSS work?
    • designed for automated surfing of websites
    • consists of a file with a list of items: title, description, date, link to each item (so called permalink)
    • plus optional enclosure for audio, video, etc.
    • plus optional things for categories and tags (per item keywords popularized by delicious and flickr, now used in many tools like WordPress, etc).
    • and ping
    • popularized by blogging, now used by podcasting and videoblogging as well as normal web sites like globeandmail, bbc, cbc, new york times, etc.
  • Enables the text, audio, video conversation
    • text blogging, the promotional media, best internet word of mouth until we automagically can read metadata (like speech to text ) from audio and video
    • podcasts, audioblogs, etc.
    • videocasts, videoblogs
  • Tools for creating:
    • Blogging
      • Level 0 : Blogger and other free tools like MSN Spaces, AOL Journals, Live Journal, WordPress.com
      • Level 1: Paid tools like Blogware, TypePad, Bryght,
      • Level 2: run your own server using Drupal, WordPress, MovableType etc.
    • Podcasting (do we need to explain the podcast lifecycle? yes, just high level, details later from Eric)
      • Level 0: Odeo and other free tools
      • Level 1: Audioblog
      • Level 2: run your own server
    • Videoblogging (do we need to explain the videoblog lifecycle? yes, just high level details later from Eric)
      • Level 0: blip.tv, internet archive/our media, nowpublic, google video etc.
      • Level 1: audioblog,
      • Level 2:run your own server
    • Photoblogging:
      • Level 0 and 1: flickr, smugmug, etc can also be used as blogs
    • Wikis:
    • Web apps
      • Writely - Word
      • Backpack - Lists
      • Basecamp (project management using blog like interface) - used it for Blogs n Dogs
      • Writeboard
      • 43 things, people, places
      • audio scrobbler
      • LinkedIn - business social networking
      • JotSpot Live
  • A word about personal web strategy
    • Very similar to media literacy, you pick and choose your non offline media habit, should do the same for online media habit!
    • Decide who you are for a particular domain? Are you an early adopter? Or someone who decides to wait longer before adopting new tech? Pick and choose, e.g. if you are comfortable with videos and being filmed and filing, maybe you can start videoblogging now rather than waiting for easier tools to emerge
    • Very important that for your business or org that you have the stuff on your domain name and have an API to get the stuff out (in case they go out of business or become evil) and/or you switch to another service
    • This is why the free tools don't really work (great for expermenting)
    • backup your stuff; don't rely on hosted services
    • e.g. for blog tools, experiment with Blogger and Odeo by all means but don't have your business rely on them
  • Tools for listening
    • Listen for your name, your company name, your keywords, your competitors, etc.
    • Subscribe to blogs, videologs, podcasts, of people you trust (respected human filters) say 50 at the most
    • Subscribe to Search Engine Feeds from PubSub and Yahoo News and Technorati and delicious say 50 at the most
      • Show how search engine feeds work
      • Pubsub for everything
      • Technorati for tags
      • delicious tags
      • Yahoo News for 'normal web sites'
      • flickr tags
    • To subscribe use Bloglines (like Hotmail for RSS reading), FeedDemon or NetNewswire (many more) for RSS
    • can also use iTunes for video and podcasts and also tools like FireANT (newer, less mature)
  • The Future
    • RSS and conversational tools everywhere, share whatever you want to whomever you want and listen to what you what whereever you want
    • blogs, videoblogs, podcasting features built into all systems not systems in themselves
    • post 2007, RSS in Windows Vista, built into every operating system, every app just like email
    • RSS not just for human stuff like blogs, podcasts, videoblogs
    • also for anything with title, date description like industrial and knowledge worker processes
      • # of widgets made in the last hour
      • if you are a software developer, changes to your company's source code aka CVS checkins
      • audio scrobbler at last.fm - what you have been listening to
    • With everything in RSS, need to have a way to bring everything together, so called Digital Lifestyle Aggregator (DLAs)
      • Marc Canter's Vision
      • like a portal customized to your requirements personal portal bringing together all of your online life flows (which are and will be in RSS) since your stuff will be in multiple places
      • e.g. all your blogs, photos, podcasts, videoblogs i.e. stuff you create plus stuff you are interested in
      • early examples, Yahoo 360, Drupal's Aggregator 2 (Roland O Sphere)
      • and of course want this everywhere on all devices seamlessy synched (mobile e.g. bloglines mobile, litefeeds)
    • DLAs work for business to: Digital Workstyle Aggregator/Real Time Enterprise Console
      • everybody in biz/org can monitor what's they need to instead of today's imposed by IT, hard to change and not so relevant portals
    • Digital Identity aka Identity 2.0
      • if your stuff and the stuff you want to listen is in many places and services, the current situation of having 1 userid/service or place will not hold (1 id for gmail, 1 id for your blog, 1 id for your podcast, 1 id for delicious, 1 id for your videoblog, 1 id for work, 1 id for..........)
      • easy to do totally public or totally private but not anything in between which is what you often want
      • so people are trying to figure out how to make online identity work like real world
      • where you only have a few pieces of identity like a passport and drivers license and certain people accept 1 or the other or both
      • Dick Hardt's Identity 2.0 video
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