Blogs, RSS, and Wikis
Overview Blogs
Definition, history Impact, examples
RSS Definition, history How it works, examples
Wikis Definition, history History, uses
What does all of this have in common, and why does it matter? Definition, impact What does this have to do with IA?
BlogsDefinition
History Pre 1998 Blog hosting services Proliferation
Impact Trent Lott The trend continues…
RSS Definition
History
How it works
Examples (RSS file and software)
WikisDefinition
History Vannevar Bush: the Memex Ward Cunningham
Uses
User-Generated ContentDefinition
Impact “Packaged Goods” media to “Conversational”
media Passive audiences to active audiences
What does this have to do with IA? Creating a semantic structure to harness
collective intelligence Microformats, RDF Ongoing issues Roles for IAs
“The challenge for the next generation of the Social and Semantic Webs is to find the right match between what is put online and methods for doing useful reasoning with the data.”
-Tom Gruber
http://drmatthewashton.com/2011/02/11/great-mistakes-in-politics-no13-trent-lott-praises-strom-thurmond/
http://nymag.com/news/media/15971/
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-user-generated-content.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework
Leuf, B., and W. Cunningham. The wiki way, quick collaboration on the web. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2001. Heath, T., and C. Bizer. Linked data, evolving the web into a global data space. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2011. Bush, Vannevar. As We May Think, The Atlantic Monthly, 176(1):101-108, July 1945.
Gruber, Tom. Collective Knowledge Systems: Where the Social Web Meets the Semantic Web, Semantic Web and Web 2.0, 176(1):4-13, December 2007