RSSA
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Really Simple Social Action (RSSA)
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.
== 2000 Overview of the Idea==
RSSA seeks to add a simple 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.
Do Something Buttons
Kyle Shannon has suggested two possible ideas for an icon linking to "Do Something" activities, adding an exclamation mark to the standard RSS feed to indicate a sense of action. He has also suggested that users could use a hyperlinked exclamation mark as an in-line link. For example, Here is a test link !
This is derived from the Standard RSS icon:
History
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 from Meeting/ 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.
Links
- Uplift Academy
- RSSA Mailing List
- Tom Munnecke will be introducing the topic at the June 2007 San Diego Bar Camp
- Peter Deitz is talking about RSSA at May 2007 NetSquared conference in a more restricted sense of fundraising.
- An RSSA Sandbox has been set up to play with some ideas about RSSA.
Candidate test sites and sponsoring organizations
(Enter your web site below if you'd like to test out RSSA syndication)
