Re: The most syndicated community?

["Ray Matthews" <raymatthews@utahgov.net>]

Hello Steven,

I haven't updated RSS in Government in a number of weeks (http://rss.gov).
You'll find some links there to government feeds. I haven't yet included
notices I've received from Minnesota, Missouri, the General Services
Administration and other state and federal agencies in the past two months.

Utah has literally several hundred RSS feeds going in government. I started
creating an OPML directory for them, but alas, never finished. A feed
directory is certainly on our to do list. We have several MT installations,
and some are producing feeds dynamically from Oracle (such as Legislature's
news and committee/bill tracking feeds). Administrative Rules recently
started a WordPress generated blog for internal collaboration. Our IT
Manager, Dave Fletcher (dfletcher@utah.gov) and editor of Government &
Technology (http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/) may be able to assign someone
to help you out.

I've recently installed ExpressionEngine for the structure for a community
site for exchanging family news, photos, and genealogy. That's one of the
reasons why I haven't had time for RSS in Government lately.  RSS is
becoming so ubiquitous now that it's almost news not to find a newspaper,
media site, or agency not using RSS or Atom.

As for a community, I still think that CraigsList
(http://www.craigslist.org/) is still one of the niftiest applications. I
run into people all the time who are barely computer literate yet use it
routinely to post and look for jobs, personals, and classified ads. Again, I
haven't updated it some time, but my rss workshop site has links to some
other examples http://www.rssgov.com/rssworkshop.html.

A friend in Belgium who runs the fabulous RSS2Email service, Peter Claerhout
(Pieter.Claerhout@Creo.com), may be able to give you some pulse on what's
happening there.  John Gotze (john@slashdemocracy.org), too, is the
authority on RSS use in European governments.

Best wishes with your projects,

Ray Matthews
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----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:23 AM
Subject: [syndication] Digest Number 864

>    Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:22:06 -0500
>    From: "Steven Clift" <slc@publicus.net>
> Subject: The most syndicated community?
>
>
> 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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