What's missing in weblog community building software are tools that allow the builders to create community around their little corner of the Internet, not the Internet at large.
The BIT320 Distributed Learning Blogosphere (blogging community) is composed of a few components:
- An aggregation web site hosted by Myst Technology partners. The most important component of which (by far) are the feed harvesting pages for class participants and syndicated guests (A LOT more on how this component could be developed below).
- All of the feeds from student participant (OPML) and syndicated guest (OPML) blogs.
- The actual typepad blogging systems where students make their posts. This system determines in large part the extent and way students can contribute to the overall community.
- Client feed aggregators such as Sage (the one we adopted) that allow participants to track what is going on in the system.
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