Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
More on the potential successor to RSS, Echo. What strikes me as the most interesting about this is that the best way to design the specification seems to be to use the online equivalent of a blackboard with fifty writers. But, "Like I said, this is politically necessary. RSS has been handled in a far less collaborative -- some say dictatorial -- manner. There's a huge amount of resentment over that, and it's fueling this new movement. So the redesign is taking place in a fully-transparent environment -- a smoke-free room..." The article takes some jabs at Dave Winer; in his response Winer offers his qualified (but short-lived) endorsement for Echo but sounds some well-taken warnings about "the Bigs."

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