from Marc Canter's blog, an article worth repeating, re Dave Winer's Distributed Directories idea:
I thought I'd turn you on to a couple of related sites out there - that are doing things like what Dave is doing.
1. Phil Pearson's TopicExchange.com. Go to this public site. Define channel/topic of interest (I choose TheMatrix.) Subscribe to any channel you wish (via RSS of course.) Folks can contirbute to channels via Trackback or by manually posting to that channel. As far as I know the TopicExchange was the first blog aggregation channel play.
Some folks use the TopicExchange for conferences or seminars or for special events or emergency situations. Others have copied the concept of blog aggregation channels - in general - for other uses.
2. Then there's eVector's W4/k-collector new service. It's based upon a paralell concept of topics - which are used to aggregate blog posts. But it goes about it a completely different way. Folks utilize a 'k-collector' plug-in in their blog tool to attach keywords to their blog posts. Then a new kind of aggregator - called W4 (for Who, What, Where, When) is used to browse, sort and display these posts - via topic keywords, instead of.... well you get the point, basically that's what Dave Winer is doing today.
But the difference is that W4/k-collector utilzies shared clouds - so that MULTIPLE people are contributing these keywords. The TopicExchange uses an open approach as well. And (surprise, surpirse) Paolo (of eVectors) has been working on a way on connecting these worlds together.
There is also the issue of 'topic mapping' to keep in mind - as well. Afterall one man's musical event is another man's concert.
what this is ALL about is knowledge management coming to the blogosphere. These are unhderlying themes of teh semantic web. This is about agents, and smart software and ne wkinds of tools to enable all this new stuff.
In other words - when Dave Winer discovers this shit - that means it's VERY real, it's been here a while and it ain't going away.
8:23:31 PM 
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