Just had pierre crevoisier from EPFL visit the Wyona office. We are going to organize a seminar at EPFL to show people how to leverage open protocols and formats. The idea is to embrace the diversity of content and applications, and rather than forcing people to submit to central control (they won’t), encourage them to open up their content via RSS, and their applications via web services.
We believe that as web services bridges gaps in EAI, so does weblog technology cross organizational, social barriers. the underlying philosophy in both is that if you unlock your stuff, you can reap the benefits of group forming and social networks.
Sebastien paquet leads the way by showing the academic community how to use weblogs in research and communication (can you say lab notebook?). Will it be possible to replicate the open source meme and make it one of open minds? The protocol and format barriers are coming down. It’s time for group barriers to follow suit.

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