Category: Ahh, how old is new again. With sessions on “augmenting human intellect” and annotation, the early dream of computers empowering people is alive and kicking. I pitched the PIKII ideas a number of times — point out how the weblogging world has grafted many of Nelson’s ideas onto the web.
While I’m not satisfied with our current link (vote/no-follow) or node typing (page/post metadata), the place where we have the least traction is in sharing trails. To that end, I hosted a session on “hacking attention.xml” where we deconstructed the AttentionTrust firefox extension and called for some improvements.
It’s my premise that while there’s value in the AttentionTrust aggregation path, there’s also the need to empower users to control the granular sharing of browse data along with annotations. Many of the details are over at the Seattle Mind Wiki.
There’s still some gel to happen, hopefully I’ll get some action paths with the participants nailed down this morning. First and foremost, AttentionTust: get your code into CVS at mozdev. There already seems to be a forking of the attentionXml concept from Tantek@Technorati’s implementation aimed at blog posts and blogs to the AttentionTrust focus on full browse history. It’s probably true that I’m more interested in pushing my blog reading history to the cloud (ala Technorati) than full browser history, but that’s just ground 0 — computers should never waste my attention and lack of synch between read history in aggregators is criminal.
The potential here is going beyond simple single link sharing, as so effectively realized by delicious, to facilitating the sharing of paths and narratives.
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