30 September, 2005 - 8:22am

Roland Tanglao's fabulous presentation on Remixing RSS last week is now available online as a podcast. We agree with his assessment that one of the most interesting parts of the evening was the Q&A amongst the Web 2.0 user group members. The discussion revolved around what is going to happen to the future of RSS as it becomes increasingly popular -- will the signal to noise ratio be overwhelming and thus go the way of Usenet? Roland commented on the differences this time being: search engines, filtering, and if we have Identity 2.0.

He noted that the jury is still out right now, but that if we have mechanisms for identity, reputation and trust that RSS will be manageable. It was mentioned that it's hard to apply technology to trust, which is social, contextual and temporal. And a qustion posed was whether the answer might be to have an identity reputation system where it would be possible to rank bloggers somewhat similar to eBay ratings. Roland responded that Sxip Identity is coming out with something like this. Sxore, is a reputation system for user-generated content built with Identity 2.0 technology. We'll be talking about sxore at the November Web 2.0 User Group meeting. Stay tuned for more details...