B. Mann Consulting

See also: Feed Reading via People: Face to Face with Ton Ziljstra, Part 1

I wanted to share with Ton some of the information that came up during DrupalCon.

• NINA -- a bundle of Semantic Web (yes, big "S" -- it is an RDF store) tools being built on top of Drupal. Don't forget the Relationship module -- it's still around and still very interesting. RDF for a long time has had the perception of complexity. Secondly, it has had real performance issues as tuples can't natively be represented in a relational database. Both of these are chicken-and-egg issues, I believe. If there were more running code in an easily accessible platform that automatically created and worked with RDF metadata...well, we might see some interesting things :P
• Mixel and Ton should meet/talk more. Mixel's KNOSOS (Knowledge Sharing over Social Software) project has built some very interesting tools on top of Drupal and is continuing to evolve; we're all looking forward to see more on his tag visualization

Ton uses Qumana to easily cross-post to multiple locations. I'm unhappy with this as a solution, as context is actually lost. That is, there should be one canonical/permanent/referenceable URI for each blog post...or at least a GUID. Atom does this well, we need it to be better automated. To be fair, Ton does customize and/or intro each duplicated cross post, adding local context. Ideally, there is a field in the feed specs that could be used for this purpose without changing the GUID -- I may want to see his local context hints, but I don't want to see the same article three times from him. I know I feel the same pressure/need -- these collection of posts should be at Bryght as well as B. Mann Consulting because we haven't yet enabled automatic aggregation of targetted posts.