RSS WILL Rule, OK?
The more I look at what is going on in the Blogosphere the more it seems to me that the Net is making the transition from thinking in terms of "it is just like ..." to thinking in the real terms of the technology. It is the same process that let film shift from being "just like a play" to speaking in its own idiom of pans, close-ups and dissolves.

As usual, the publishing business has been so focused on finding a way to make the net just like their old technology, and getting seduced by the pretty pictures of the web into thinking that it is just slow TV, that they are missing the actual new thing. But they are being co-opted anyway.

The Shifted Librarian Points to the News of the Day Aggregator ....pulling it all together .... where educator Ken Tompkins is pulling together Education News from the NYTimes, the BBC and a whole pile of other sources and making them available online.

The educators seem to be making the running here with RSS for syndicating information about learning objects

The AntiWar crowd is also working in the same vein at the next level up, with their Warblogs CC Metablog

Its like 1996 all over again. Hope we are a little wiser this time.