Learn more about AttentionXML from its cheerleader

January 25, 2005

Join Steve Gillmor Feb 1 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm at the University of Phoenix in Concord, CA as he discusses AttentionXML. The event is brought to you by ebig.org's Blogging & RSS Special Interest Group. More information on event location

Blogs are a great for information sharing and community building, but it doesn't take too long to get overwhelmed. Even if you've set up your feeds in an rss reader to aggregate the content, it's easy to get overwhelmed by too much content.

Steve Gillmor, journalist with ZDNET, will join us to talk about AttentionXML, a concept he's been instrumental in forming. AttentionXML is a new technology initiative that will present a richer view than that available through just a static list of rss feeds. This new standard, still under discussion and development, will help you manage your blogroll, turning it from a list into an interactive, filtered stream of content. AttentionXML injects intelligence back into the system, as it will use data gathered on what you are reading when to help improve the community understanding of what great content is. It will let you "vote" with your attention, to make the content that is collectively most valued most accesible. Why not harness the power of your social network and the larger community of readers so you stay in synch with the blogosphere.

Posted by Bill Flitter on January 25, 2005 10:20 AM
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