RSSA Sandbox

Adaptive Blue Smart Marks Enabled

Posted by Tom Munnecke on May 24th, 2007

This blog is enabled to use AdaptiveBlue Organizer:

With BlueLinks you can make your blogs interactive simply by embedding BlueLinks where you would normally embed a regular link. The link still goes to the intended page, but if your readers are BlueOrganizer users, they can right-click and pull up the BlueMenu learn to instantly learn find out what you’re blogging about. The BlueLink generator allows you to either create Image BlueLinks with an icon of the item or plain Text BlueLinks.

We will be experimenting with Blue Links to see how they might support the activities of RSSA.

Here is a sample of some of the Features of Adaptive Blue

When you see the little blue box after a link, this indicates that good stuff is afoot with the click of a mouse.

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What is RSSA?

Posted by Tom Munnecke on May 24th, 2007

RSSA is a model for connecting people, ideas, and activities at a large scale. It is based on the model of RSS that allows sites to create web feeds of their content that can be then collected by aggregators into a common feed.

RSSA is an enabling technology to allow diverse sources on the web, such as blogs, email signatures, videos, web sites, podcasts, wikis, television and radio broadcasts, etc. to attract attention to a common Activity Space. As people and agents interact, their Activity Stream is recorded so that others may see what is being done.

Overview of the Idea

RSSA adds a layer on top of existing RSS technology to allow diverse sources of information to link to the same Activity Space. People who are motivated to do something as a result of having seen information on the internet can follow the link to discover what’s happening related to that particular activity.

These activities may be controlled by microformats conveying information about specific applications, such as disaster relief, philanthropic activities, political actions, or health care interactions, to name a few.

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Some history behind the name

Posted by Tom Munnecke on May 24th, 2007

The name RSSA was suggested at private high-tech retreat by Andrew Rasiej in a brain storming conversation over lunch with Kyle Shannon who suggested that finding a way to leverage people’s “ambient emotional reactions” to things they see or read on the web and then want to do something about without having to go to a separate site or break their work flow. It resonated with ideas that were discussed at the Aug 2004 Uplift Academy Workshop in New York, and earlier ideas discussed in GivingSpace Philanthropic (or, Giving) Markup Language, as well as in Tom Munnecke’s Initial notes on GivingSpace. This was also discussed as part of a Do Something Router, which were actions taken possibly in reaction to Do Something Moments. The notion of Micro philanthropy and relates to model of the Philo, a complementary currency for philanthropy. This also relates to discussion on how to create attractor networks of uplift, “pulling” attention through the attraction of “magnets” in a self-organizing, self-propagating manner, rather than “promotion networks” that “push” attention on people. This also supports the “pull” dynamics of trustraising rather than the “push” dynamics of fundraising.

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