2003-05-11 - I Want to Own My Own Data Dammit!
I'm starting to feel like the eventual model needs to be that each person has a single core/central app/DataStore ("SemanticClient") which then serves as a source for new (SocialSoftware and other) applications. OSAF/Chandler, PersonalKnowledgeManagement, EMail AddressBook? (for WhiteList spam blocking), InstantMessaging BuddyList, WebLog, WikiLog, RssAggregator subscriptions for UniversalInbox, FOAF, new-book notifications, local-event notifications...
Yes, please! This is what I love about wiki, it's my personal knowledge store. Everything that I feel is lacking has to do with figuring out how to store and present the information in the most useful way and build API's into it for myself and others to mine it with.
I've been thinking a bit about the WillametteWeek article on IndyMedia. It the article is accurate it seems that Portland IndyMedia has taken a turn for the worse for precisely the reasons that JoFreeman talks about in the TheTyrannyOfStructurelessness. Their lack of formal structure allowed them to be taken over by spArk 1 and Deva's clique. Would Indymedia have faired better if instead of hosting the actual content they allowed their journalists to TrackBack stories to the appropriate section of the IndyMedia site? It might have limited the potential for censhorship (which in my experience is the death knell online communities) and made the takeover harder while still providing the value that a centralized source offers. Mmmm, meta-portals, I think I was asking about that a while ago in my own naive way.
Oh, and check out CycleCide christ's sake. What are you, living in a cage?
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1 Oooh, maybe I should start doing spack like spAck
