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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?.
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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?
Blogs • Definition • History • Pre 1998 • Blog hosting services • Proliferation • Impact • Trent Lott • The trend continues…
RSS • Definition • History • How it works • Examples (RSS file and software)
Wikis • Definition • History • Vannevar Bush: the Memex • Ward Cunningham • Uses
User-Generated Content • Definition • 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://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