The most syndicated community?

["Steven Clift" <slc@publicus.net>]

I am on the hunt for the most syndicated local geographic community
where lots of web sites offer RSS/XML feeds.  Local sites that index or
display those local feeds are also of interest.

I am also interested in other communities of practice/interest where
feeds are normal part of organizational/expert life.  The less
IT-oriented the better.

Finally, I've heard of lots of government RSS/syndication activity in
Utah and Belgium.  Are you aware of feed directories for those and any
other government efforts to promote the use of syndication.

I'll be using these in a presentation in New Zealand (and beyond).

Thanks,

Steven Clift

P.S. E-Democracy.Org is developing plans for our second decade.  Our
model starts with the local many-to-many Issues Forum and builds out
from there.  Our draft e-democracy toolkit concept includes the display
and use of syndicated content.  I can see space around the display of
recent Issues Forum posts that includes:

1. News - A "news headline" display/feed for neighborhood local/news
2. Speaker's Corner - An aggregated view of recent local blog posts
3. Notices - Headlines from local government and other civic group
announcements/press release headlines
4. Events - A feed we would share from our local civic events calendar
5. Issues Forum, Town Hall - Our feeds for others from our ongoing forum
and our web-based Town Hall for online special events

Say, is there an XML standard for community/cultural/arts event
calendars?


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