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Sono molto impegnato in questi giorni, ma un minuto da dedicare alla piattaforma semantica di blogging che uso va perso:

sembra che gli hacker dietro Wordpress vogliano togliere il supporto ufficiale ai feeds Atom e RSS1 e RSS0.92…

RSS2 and Atom are both competent feed formats. All feed readers these days are built to understand one or both of them. It’s time we ditched RSS .92 and RDF, they’ve been bloating the WordPress core for too long. If they’re desperately needed a plugin can provide.

Ora per un software che si proclama come “state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform“ mi pare un colpo veramente dannoso…

Tra l’altro ho come la netta impressione che qualcuno sia stato fuorviato dai numeri immaginando che le vecchie versioni di RSS fossero solo vecchie, invece che tutt’altre tecnologie…

Senza contare l’importanza di RDF, che nel 2006 vedra’ credo un nuovo sviluppo di tools sempre piu’ usabili…

Ci sono un paio di ottimi post da segnalare sulla questione:

• WordPress to drop RDF / RSS 1.0> hope that RDF 1.0 will not be dropped - and there are many Semantic Web hackers who are using WordPress and the RDF feed that it produces.
• 3 Reasons Why WordPress Should Not Drop RSS 1.0> Dropping RSS 1.0 can’t be justified just because all RSS readers today support both RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0. Granted that RSS readers today consume and process feeds of different formats pretty much the same way.However, it’s difficult to say whether this phnomenom will continue to hold in the future as people gain better knowledge about the use of RDF on the Web. Perhaps new Semantic Web technologies will open new doors to the consumption of RDF (RSS 1.0), which will enable us to build more smart web applications.

  As a WordPress user, I like to have options. I want to be able to choose the format of RSS feeds that I publish. I don’t want to be told what format is the “standard” format and what format is the “right” format.

• WordPress and RSS 1.0> I think that’s a mistake, having the RSS 1.0 available means there is a direct RDF representation of the data.

  There is very active RDF development outside the syndication domain (e.g. this resource list or this), and for WP to cut the direct interoperability cord would be a retrograde step.
  Ok, RSS 1.0 may not be the ideal RDF representation - RSS 1.1 or an RDF/XML serialization of Atom/OWL would be preferable, primarily because they’re both based on the revised RDF specs which avoid the ugliness of escaped HTML in content. But RSS 1.0 is supported by virtually every feed reader, and mass deployment of cleaner RSS RDF/XML isn’t likely in the near future.

Sull’ultimo link segnalato e’ da vedere l’interessante tabella comparativa dei vari formati di feed syndication…

Speriamo la questione si risolva…

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After my two posts, i have found some interesting ideas in this article about Wiki applications:
-> You don’t know Tiddly, Wiki

The part of the post i’m looking at is this one:

Speaking of small. I’ll close with a slight twist on Wikis that you really need to know about. There’s a chap named Jeremy Ruston who took the Wiki concept and adapted it to what he defines as ‘microcontent.’ In the same way that you don’t always write a full story on a blog, or a full letter in an e-mail you have microcontent.
So he shaped a Wiki in a fashion that would best help him corral microcontent and called it a TiddlyWiki. See, you thought Wiki was the worst name you’d ever heard of and now we have TiddlyWiki. When I heard about TiddlyWikis I was twice as excited about them as I was when I learned of Wikis.
Almost everything we do in our information economy jobs is about microcontent.
We don’t write papers in business anymore, we don’t do full research studies, we guestimate 95% of the time, we don’t often run fully integrated advertising campaigns, and we don’t watch all of the TV show.
We don’t usually digest much of anything these days in huge gulps other than stress.
Instead we take sips from a thousand different wine glasses each day and swirl the wine around in our mouths trying to identify the ingredients so we can understand them, appreciate them, and find out which ones are worth swallowing.

It’s very interesting to see how much important is the microcontent stuff…

As i have noticed in the last post, it’s very closed to our mind way of thinking and learning processes…

There is a lot of potential in this stuff and probably it helps us to make better activities in everyday experience…

That’s the purpose of the tecnology, doesn’t it?

A sort of non linear approach to knowledge…

A more adaptive and dynamic content…

Some others good pointers…

• Defining Microcontent
• 2004 Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers

work in progress…

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Ecco una breve lista di links molto interessanti su nuovi tools e nuovi dibattiti sul SW…

• RDF… “Easy as Learning English”
• VisualizingRDF
• Fresnel RDF display vocabolary
• Links on the Semantic Web - Tabulator, un tool come proof of concepts direttamente dall’inventore del Web :)

Materiale sul quale tornare, molto bella la riflessione sui links di Sir Tim :)

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