People thinking along the lines of shared "playlists" might want to watch for the work that Dave Winer is doing with OPML - outline processor markup language. There is great potential for shared outlines of many kinds.
Dave will release an open source OPML editor (with an extremely simple user interface - I saw him demo it last night) in the next couple of months. Beta testing is going on right now. Dave invented RSS, another very simple and powerful standard. OPML in one application can organize and disseminate lists of RSS feeds. In another, it manages shared workgroup notes. Dave's famously ornery blog is a source for news on this: http://archive.scripting.com/ I will post other links as I find them. Best Dave Pentecost On 7/13/05, joseph savirimuthu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for this Deborah > We are trying to create a Visually Impaired Commons > site established in the UK - will draw on your > suggestions to give our work much needed impetus. > Joseph > > --- Deborah Elizabeth Finn > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (A version of this item with live links is available > > at > > > <http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/7/13/1019747.html>.) > > > > > > > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > On Tuesday, I attended a very lively presentation at > > Harvard Law > > School on H20 Playlist > > <http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/home.do> by > > Jonathan Zittrain, Molly Krause, and Hal Roberts. > > > > H20 Playlist has been inspired by internet-based > > information sharing > > projects such as Amazon.com book reviews, Wikipedia, > > del.icio.us, and > > iTunes. The logic is intriguing: if untold numbers > > of netizens are > > willing to spend untold hours classifying their > > knowledge, online > > resources, digital music, and web links to share > > online with > > strangers, then with the right tool (and a certain > > amount of > > persuasion) educators of all kinds can share their > > curricula, syllabi, > > and other resources. > > > > I see this as a tool that has great potential for > > nearly every > > mission-based organization that includes education > > in its long term > > strategy. However, the project is still in its > > infancy, and my sense > > is that it hasn't reached the point where it would > > be easy and > > intuitive enough to engage those over-worked > > nonprofit professionals > > who are not intrinsically facinated by the > > underlying technology. So > > my advice to most people in the nonprofit sector is > > to keep an eye on > > H20 Playlist, but let someone else be the beta > > tester. > > > > For some, these cautionary words will merely inspire > > greater eagerness > > to forge ahead with H20 Playlist. For that group's > > benefit, I've > > created a playlist on "free ICT resources for > > philanthropic, > > nonprofit, and community-based organizations." You > > are very welcome to > > add comments or to use my H20 Playlist as a starting > > point for > > creating one of your own. Many of the items I've > > listed will be very > > familiar to readers of my blog, and are therefore > > not new and > > exciting, but I predict that as H20 Playlist accrues > > more educational > > content, it will be exciting for mission-based > > organizations to > > compare notes - not only with traditional academic > > instructors, but > > also with each other. > > > > Best regards from Deborah > > > > P.S. For more on the conceptual framework, see > > Molly Krause's > > Playlist, "The Philosophy of H2O." > > > > Deborah Elizabeth Finn > > Boston, Massachusetts, USA > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog > > http://public.xdi.org/=deborah.elizabeth.finn > > > > _______________________________________________ > > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > > > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > > To unsubscribe, send a message to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > > UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > > > > > Joseph Savirimuthu > The Liverpool Law School > University of Liverpool > Chatham Street > Liverpool > L69 7ZS > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE > in the body of the message. > -- The Daily Glyph http://www.gomaya.com/glyph Usumacinta http://www.gomaya.com/dams Cell 917 312 9733 _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
