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Community Blogs and Power Research: An Interview with Lisa Williams

marshallkirkpatrick — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:50:25 -0500

Lisa Williams is a prolific multi-media content creator, a key player in the emerging OPML community and the founder of H2otown, a thriving community blog covering news and events in Watertown, Massachusetts.

In the following interview Lisa and I talked about how she set up a successful community blog, her cutting edge research methods and her hope to make the H2otown site even more inclusive of area residents.

Intro to OPML with Five Samples

marshallkirkpatrick — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:11:17 -0500

I've been wanting to put together some good OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) files all week, inspired by Anne Zelenka's giant Blogher file and the interview with legal blogger Dennis Kennedy about the incredible potential for this medium.

An OPML file is, in this case, a single file you can use to subscribe to a number of RSS (definition) feeds all at once. This means that with one link you are subscribed to all future content from selected sources. I think that selecting a handful of key feeds in certain topic areas and offering those to other people is going to be a powerful way that information-overload gatekeepers help the rest of the world find and easily subscribe to the best news sources available. In this sense everyone who puts together OPML files is like an editor of anthologies; only the authors that the editor selects provide ongoing, dynamic contributions.

Communication, Law and Web 2.0: An Interview with Blawger Dennis Kennedy

marshallkirkpatrick — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:23:27 -0500

Dennis Kennedy is an expert in technology law and legal technology. He is also a legal blogger (“blawger”) and follows emerging web tools closely.

In the following interview we talked about non profit adoption of new technologies and the communicative as well as legal dimensions of blogging, RSS, OPML and wikis. Dennis also shared some thoughts on privacy issues and the upcoming Net Squared conference.