Attention! Attention! Attention.xml
4Steve Gillmor has an excellent post on Attention.xml and the rationale and use cases for why we developed it together. We’re working hard on turning that vision into reality, and I’m encouraged by how many others (look at the people linking to Steve’s post) are “getting it” and working on it. This is not a one-man or two-man show, it has to have involvement from a community, and it has to be as open and transparent as possible. Go Steve, go!
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Dave, I’m still not there. It sounds a lot like RDF. People have been hammering RDF at me for 7-8 yrs and I still don’t get it and it’s still not happening. Until there’s a attention.xml killer application, then it’s all just data, no real info.
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Giving People what they Want
There is a lot of talk right now about attention.xml. In and of itself it is pretty dull. Creating an XML format for describing what should get your attention is the easy part. The ha…
Thanks for this. Sounds very interesting, and potentially extremely useful. Another item to add to my growing list of things to learn about!