An invitation to "speak" to Network-Lawyers on RSS and other forms of collaboration between blogs and web sites

An invitation to "speak" to the Network-Lawyers discussion group on RSS and
other forms of collaboration between blogs and web sites.

Hi Joshua:

I am glad you are game for the venture.  My responses follow with // to
indicate where I start and end:

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Tauberer / GovTrack [mailto:tauberer-a/[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 4:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: An invitation to "speak" to a group of lawyer bloggers,
webmasters and internet techies


John DeBruyn wrote:
> I am very impressed with what you have been able to do at GovTrack ...
> congratulations on a job well done and best wishes for accomplishing even
> more during the new year.

Hi, John, and thank you!

> You are blazing many new trails for online interaction ... developing new
> models for collaborations between blogs, websites and other sources of
> comment and information.

Well, of all the trails I think I'm blazing, I didn't think the blog
collaboration model was one of them, really.  There are a lot of blog
aggregators out there that combine blogs based on subject matter
(although they normally hand pick a select few blogs to aggregate), and
really all I did was put a spin on that.  I'm glad you like it though. :)

// I thought what you were doing with your topical organization, bill by
bill, was cutting edge. I had not run into that elsewhere. You need somebody
in the publicity department to herald your accomplishments. //

You may have seen (and this might be part of what you're referring to)
the 'long term mission' box on the front page that mentions creating a
semantic web of political information.  I'm working now on organizing
something with other groups along the lines of a model for sharing
information, but the model itself isn't new.  It's just hardly been used
by anyone.  So, I don't want to take much credit for developing new
models, just putting the models into practice.

// Perhaps there is also room for capturing comments from commentators who
are not maintaining blogs themselves.  Although the free blogging tools are
getting better (that is easier, more efficient, more powerful) with time.
Wikipedia is also an interesting, almost blog like, phenomena with some
promise along these lines. //

 > I would like to feature you as a guest speaker for an online-seminar
 > email-based program on RSS and other forms of collaboration between
 > blogs and web sites

I'm really flattered that you would ask me.  Now, I'm no super-duper
expert in this field, but provided I can be helpful, I'd be happy to
participate.  I can definitely talk about RSS and blogs from a
practical/technical standpoint, and I would be interested in talking
about collaboration through metadata, RDF, and the semantic web from an
idealistic/grand-vision standpoint.

// I think you experience and ideas will be invaluable as this is all moving
so fast.  I am especially interested in collaboration.  The typical blog and
the website are so ego centric and one-way ... I see what all you are doing
will turn this into more of a conversation, point and counter point, even
consensus building between the contending parties, experts, journalists,
commentators, interested parties and the public-at-large. //

> in the Network-Lawyers email-based and web-based discussion group

How many people are in the group?

// Our members number about 375.  We would publicize the seminar to other
several other lawyer discussion groups where technology is on-topic and law
librarian discussion groups that would net us additional participants. We
also pick up some promotion through the blogs and email letters that various
individual members publish. //

> we had a series of seven week long
> seminars, one each month from September through February of last year on
> various internet related topics.

That format is a really great idea.  I'm wondering if I can start
something like this in another domain since it sounds like a lot of fun...

// I am left over from the BBS days of the 80s where discussion groups on
one BBS were interlinked with corresponding groups on other BBSs in the same
locale or on the same subject of conversation throughout the country and in
many cases around the world. I am looking at some so-called course
management systems, like Moodle, which better integrate the email discussion
group with blogs, read/write web pages, file libraries and other useful
tools. I would also like to look at sharing and other collaboration between
domains ala what was going on with the BBSs some 20 years ago. //

Let me know what to do and, more importantly, when this will be.  Thanks
again.

// I would like to have plenty of lead time to get Humpty Dumpy back up on
the wall ... as we have gone a bit fallow since last February, with the
seminar organization, promotion, presentation routine, I would like to shoot
for the first or second full week of April. Let me know if either or both of
those weeks work for you. //

John

John DeBruyn Denver CO USA

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- Joshua Tauberer

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