Re: Digest Number 766
Stephen Downes <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.syndication.discuss |
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Hiya > Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:20:29 -0500 > From: "justin klubnik" <[email protected]> > One interesting use of syndication technology that has shown up > recently is > the "Event Aggregator." For example: * http://feedster.com/pdc/ > What was the first event aggregator? I ask, partially because I am curious, and partly ebcause I may have a claim to it. An event aggregator, as the previous message said, "collect posts from event attendees, and compile them into one page." It's not a conference blog, in which various attendees post to a single, specialized blog. In an event aggregator, people post to their own blogs, and the aggregator harvests them, filters them, and displays posts related to the event. My first event aggregator was the MERLOT feed http://www.downes.ca/merlot.htm produced by Edu_RSS http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/xml/edu_rss.cgi August 5-8, 2003. Does anyone know of an earlier event aggregated by an event aggregator? I am a close watcher of this field, but I missed any reference to an earlier one. Doesn't mean there wasn't, though. -- Stephen Stephen Downes ~ http://www.downes.ca ~ [email protected]