Keeping it simple: "Meanwhile Winer is using his Web log technology and community to broker deals with open-source IM (instant messaging) player Jabber and Web log competitor Blogger. When Blogger architect Evan Williams demonstrated the next version of Blogger Pro at a Web log user group meeting, Winer posted notes about the product features on Scripting News. Because Radio supports the Blogger API, the competitor in effect becomes an extension of the other product. Now that's Web service, a virtual Peace Corps."
Yeah, I'm beginning to see the disappearing trick. I can see so much now becoming so much easier for the average Joe. Radio's user interface is very neat, just needs to be set up and explained.

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overstated: "weblogs provide the ability for people to discuss content on their own terms, and services such as allmusic, amazon, cdnow, imdb allow them to contextualize their discussion. By linking to cdnow, I allow people who read about music on my site the ability hear samples of that music. By linking to amazon, a reader is connected to a set of expert knowledge, and connections to topically similar media."
Ah, this is putting words into my mouth... The power of blogs and .rss feeds. At least this is how I found this. For a very long time I've not done much surfing. You know the: off you go opening lots of pages, finding one that fits and zooming down into the breaking white horse, linking to new page after new page of good stuff. I'm using news is free new channels, and blogging it straight to several blogs (each it's own .rss feed). Fun.
But, the above link, illustrates the ease at which people are building personal pages, linking to good stuff and generally building their life long knowledge. Imagine such for businesses, for tight communities or supply chains or sales teams. This is a great, open way to work, it can also be closed.
Imagine work being fun.

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Online Journalism Review: Niches of Trust. We scoped out three sites practicing varying forms of consumer journalism and community news: The Car Place, Theme Park Insider and Consumer World. All are run by current or former print journalists who put the public interest above the bottom line. [Tomalak's Realm]
Ah, trust! Just like reputation, very important things, trust and reputation.
"The pets.coms and boo.coms have gotten all the attention in the past, but now that they're gone, I believe the collaborative community projects ö the tortoises of the dotcom world ö will be the ones that pan out in the long run." "
I agree with that. It's cluetrainy in that people need real people to talk with, not journos who spin or build news agendas for their 'readership' or advertisers. For sure, they've had years to figure the right mix, but on the web the wrong mix works too. The web is much bigger than a print news paper can dream of.

 Source: Tomalak's Realm; 26/01/02; 10:46:04 pm.
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