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Re: Say Where, 01/29/2003
Interesting that as a newbie to this world of blogging and RSS, I recently wrote something along parallel lines (triggered by a piece on Human Filtering of RSS by Terry Frazier), using a metaphor that I'm sure has been mentioned by others before... This building on the work of others, or standing on the shoulders of those who came before, strikes me as an informational corollary to the "open source" movement in software design, in which a whole is the outcome of many pieces of input. Those of us adding more bits and pieces to the flow, sometimes creating eddies and retracing currents of conversation, contribute to the benefits of those downstream, unimpeded by the gate-keepers, the old-school publishers, and the "certifiers" of "professional" expertise. The ability to trace back through blogs (if notated with integrity) can serve as the change log of the insights and/or knowledge. Now this is all assuming that I know even a little bit about what I'm talking about when I say "open source," but that, I must admit, is a huge assumption.
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