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Empowering Global Spirituality
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Created: Sep 12, 2008
Updated: Apr 20, 2009
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Aggregation and making the most of the distributed web
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@upperholme - ooh how very interesting - it is very likely that something of this nature will be a recommendation, and, as you say, the 'socio' part of socio-technical is vital - this aligns with @garyalex's viewpoint (as well as mine). we'll need editorial support which needs some form of social model and related facilitation.
as well as news (via RSS) - which would be a good starting point - this element could widen gradually (with the aforementioned support groups) into common reference models and data formats for events, projects etc. |
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Considering a global transition news aggregator.
About three years ago I built a site that sort of did this for the global cooperative movement. The work was commissioned by the International Cooperative Alliance. The project has sort of stagnated due to lack of funding primarily, but the site still works and offers a proof of concept for a Transition aggregator. The site is at http://icanews.coop
When it was humming away at its best we were aggregating perhaps 150 articles daily from about 300 sources. Despite putting in as much auto categorisation as we could at the time, there was - and remains - a crying need for skilled editorial management, that would take the raw feeds and shape it into an interesting news site.
An aggregator like this also offers potential in terms of enabling editors to spot trends at an early stage. With www.icanews.coop we were aiming to build a trusted community of site editors, each of whom might have editorial responsibilities for a given theme or geographical location. We have gone some way towards that, but a lot more work is needed for that site to really progress. |
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yes, it requires a human to delete the articles you would not want, otherwise the feed will just go through with all articles, that is the only way one could get a per article selective feed. it depends on what you want to use the feed for. otherwise, the feeds can still be selective and merged, if desired, but just per feed site.
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You can have people look through a bunch of feed in Google Reader and send select one's to a 'Share' RSS feed to be further distributed (or viewed on a specific Google page). Sadly the comments which you can add to each shared story in Google Reader do not show up in the RSS stream.
But it's a manual process so you need a volunteer picking and choosing ..... |
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I posted something at http://www.wiserearth.org/forum/view/4cb2ff23148c6b2ebeac89874e8d201c
that might apply here. In google reader, there is suppose to be a way to fully edit the stream, IOW, pick what will not go into the stream. |
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If by 'TN' in the content above, it is referring to the group of people in the South West UK that constitute the Transition Network board, then in all honesty I don't believe it can do these things, and perhaps it should not seek to either. From what I see the transition movement is exactly that - a global, broad based movement that is highly distributed, bottom-up by its nature. Added to this is the reality that lots and lots of transition-like activity is going on, and will increasingly be going on, outside of anything that might be formally recognised as a transition initiative, and you have a very complex picture. Aggregation and search offer potential to provide some focal points within this. I'm guessing that do achieve more will require delivery of some real added value that will attract users and groups to use the 'approved' tools/platforms. |
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Presumably ideal is a mixture of automatically generated content and editable content?
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popping a couple of aggregators in for reference:
Ice Rocket
Addictomatic