The December 2004 issue of Release 1.0 is now available ($80), which includes Steve Gillmor's highly anticipated report on Attention.xml, a new specification for tracking, prioritizing and sharing what people are reading, looking at or listenting to via RSS.
Now there's another sea change coming: emergent "attention" structures based on blog and RSS metadata. While blogs themselves can be unstructured, the links among them and other metadata about them - who wrote a post, who looks at it, how often, where those viewers come from, and more - allow the spontaneous emergence of structure, visible to those with the proper tools to see it.
Attention.xml is an exciting potential standard that could help the Web become more "alive." The value of the Web is largely due to the people on it. But so far they are treated either as individuals with individual content, or as statistics.
I'd like to learn a little more about attention.xml, so if you know of any good sources (well, other than this report of course) let me know...
you can read the spec linked from technorati's developer program... the spec is here:
http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/attentionxml
Posted by: kareem | December 24, 2004 at 08:40 PM