[Imc-tech] what TMF open-editing is up to:

[Sascha Meinrath]

for those tech-heads in the audience, there's been a lot of discussion
(we're in the process of moving it all on-list) on the tmf-osi
open-editing proposal.  below is a brief summary of the issue we're trying
to address.

--sascha

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:11:42 -0500 (EST)
From: kellan at protest.net
To: tmf-osi at ucimc.org
Subject: [Tmf-osi] the current state of the art

a slightly editted version of an email i sent to sheri.  covers what i
think the state of the art in open editting is:

In the 2+ years we've been talking about this workable models for open
editing have been built, ideas which understand both the need for
decentralized annotation, and tools for harnessing the aggregate of that
decentralization.

Trackback[1] provides a technology platform similiar to the one envisioned
for Open Editing.  The Internet Topic Exchange[2] shows how you build
filters out of this.  Projects like Technorati[3], and Blog Ecosystem[4]
are aggregators, and sorters.

1. http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mttrackback.html
2. http://topicexchange.com/
3. http://www.technorati.com/
4. http://www.myelin.co.nz/ecosystem/

Currently most of this is technology for technology's sake; you have the
early adopters out rapelling across the chasm just because its there.
And they take as their community the whole of "blogosphere".

Open editting is about taking alot of the same principals we're seeing
emerge in the blog community, which are really just themselves
codifications (i.e., turned into code) of the basic principles that under
lie the web, and hypertext, and we're turning it to an end.  Creating a
richer vocabulary then the current "Hey! I'm out here!", and a structure
and culture to use it.  The technology is very raw, and present right now.
There is no gloss, no abstraction.

Open editing is annotation
Open editing is blogging (aka personal publishing)
Open editing is p2p journalism
Open editing is web services
Open editing is an elephant
Open editing is only spelled with one 't' (thats the hardest concept for
me to grasp personally)

kellan

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Sheri Herndon wrote:

> hi friends,
>
> here's what stephanie just wrote me when i asked her why they were
> holding back on funding the open editing proposal (when they had
> initially seemed so gung ho):
>
> re. Open Editing, the issue is that some members of the review
> committee believe that there are many more Open Editing tools out
> there already existing and so don't see the point in developing a new
> one. This is something that they agreed to discuss further, so it is
> not over yet and I'm sure we will come back to it.
>
> a few thoughts:  perhaps we need to redefine the title to generally
> reflect more of what this tool is all about.  i don't think that osi
> review committee folks are on the mark when they say that there are
> many more open editing tools LIKE THIS ONE alraedy existing.  perhaps
> we haven't really articulated what it is with enough concrete
> information and perhaps the name of the project doesn't adequately
> reflect what this is all about.
>
> so i think it would be good to generate some discussion about this so
> that when they come back with some questions, we can be ready and
> really share some thoughts on this.
>
> what do you think?
>
> also, what do people think about sending this to the tmf-osi list?
>
> xoxo
> --
>
> Be realistic and do the impossible, because if we don't do the
> impossible, we face the unthinkable.
>
> -- Murray Bookchin
>

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