Really Simple Social Action (RSSA)

Google is set to announce a set of standards called OpenSocial:

OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with
input from partners, that allow developers to access core functions and
information at social networks:

Peter Dietz has done some interesting work around the notion of syndicating donor activity for micro philanthropy. Here is an image of what he envisions, and here is a working mockup.

I've been thinking about the similarities and difference between syndication and social action.

Feedbacks 

Syndication solves a one-way information subscription problem. Publishers package information into feeds for aggregators to consume.

Social action demands a two-way activity collaboration problem. Doers report actions into feedbacks which produces an aggregate feed of all actions taken. Doers can act collaboratively by initiating new actions, imitating others, and refining methods.

this post is targeted to this group so it appears as part of the stream and notifies subscribers.

Some improvements to the site today:

Here is an interesting post by Dennis Whittle of Global Giving about a class at Stanford called Creating Infectious Action, Kindling Gregarious Behavior

These is in an interesting case study for simple social action.

Tails and Operator as Firefox addons for microformats.

Mogulus as tool for interactive TV, allow folks to collaborate TV development.

I am playing with Adaptive Blue smart linking.  The entry below has a blue box after it that can be clicked to bring in more info. 

Frederick Turner's closing presentation at the Good Ancestors Principle Workshop | Uplift Academy

On October 14th, 2006, I was at a private Retreat with a number of very interesting people and during a lunch break, we got to talking about social action and how it lived or died on the Internet.

Something had been striking me is the fact that there is so much on the Internet that begs for some sort of response or action, that I find myself overwhelmed and numb. As we were talking at lunch, a phrase popped into my head, "Ambient Emotional Reations".

One of my early lessons learned during my involvement with the Veterans Administration's Decentralized Computer Program was the power of networking people together. (see George Timson's view of the History of the Hardhats) I had been using a computer system called Confer II designed by Bob Parnes in the early 1980's and rewrote much of the functionality into a DHCP module called MailMan allowing threaded conversations between users.

This page will describe some examples of how RSSA might be used for supporting Social Action Networks.

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