rss into computer courses

[<editor@content-wire.com>]

Dear Danny

We started following content exchange developments a few years ago
You should find some stories we published a while back on our website

First, as a freelance journalist, I have had trouble getting editors 
interested. In fact, I had to found my own online journal (content-wire) to 
be able to discuss such topics, as generally the information community
(ie newspaper editors) are kinda laggards and do not venture much, leaving us 
freelancers to rummage the same old stories over and over

Secondly, as a part time technology trainer in the south east of england
(that's how I earn a living when editorial commissions are a bit short)
I am shocked at what I see.  

The level of IT curricular content is often very primitive, and does not
keep pace with what happens in the real world, so that computer courses 
ignore completely such important developments, and fail to explain the 
relevance of such developments in the real world

I'd love to collaborate with suitable projects to see some advancement
in education

lets get in touch off list, also anyone else in Europe who may be interested 
in trying to get things moving , please get in touch

regards

paola di maio
uk 01303 240079
editor@content-wire.com






Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it> said:

> 
> > To increase adoption, I think a few things need to happen.  Users need
> > to know about aggregators.  The only print article I have seen was in
> > some linux magazine.  How about "the economist" or some maintream
> > business magazine?  Most people who are not computer scientists take
> > some form of computer training at university or college.  Convincing
> > universities to include rss aggregation and syndication in these courses
> > and in marketing business courses would help.
> 
> Just for the record, I believe Ben Hammersley's piece for the Guardian also
> went in the print edition (a mass circulation paper, though this would be in
> a special-interest section) :
> 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,781838,00.html
> 
> While looking for a link to that, I found another piece in the same paper :
> 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,3605,333821,00.html
> 
> > I think a big win for RSS will be for organizations to communicate to
> > the world in a useful way, small to huge companies.
> 
> I agree entirely in regard to it being absolutely a good thing getting these
> technologies into computer courses. From personal experience it can be very
> difficult to get new systems adopted in academic environments (at least in
> the uk), largely due to political conflicts between the people doing the
> teaching and the people looking after the systems. In addition, I got the
> impression that non-specialist taught courses tended to lag behind the real
> world by several years.
> 
> On the positive side, once someone's used an aggregator (or blogging tool,
> for that matter) the benefits are apparent, and if they're an educator then
> this will get passed on. So I suspect it's only really a matter of time
> before client-side aggregators become as ubiqitous as browsers, and more
> server-side systems along the lines of Google news come online (though the
> nature of both will probably mutate in the process).
> 
> [snipped on the need for tutorials : +1]
> 
> > Paths in a file system may dissappear as metadata based file systems
> > emerge (Microsoft is working on one) in preference of queries with
> > predicates, and asking for items which match a query instead of being on
> > a certain "channel" seems like an analagous idea (daypop does this as a
> > simple example).
> 
> Agreed 100% (though I wasn't aware of ongoing work at MS). The simple
> ability to have the same item in several different folders is a big step
> forward. Unfortunately XML has probably had a detrimental effect on this
> idea, as the predominantly (single-)hierarchical 'outline' kind of approach
> leans towards trees rather than more general graphs. The way RDF subtly
> shifts the emphasis from locators to identifiers is IMHO full of potential
> (which of course I intend to exploit in my apps ;-)
> 
> There's been some related work done at Xerox Parc 'Placeless Documents' :
> 
>  http://www2.parc.com/csl/projects/placeless/
> 
> Cheers,
> Danny
> 
> 
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