The one observation I would make is that I think something like this
is right, but we need some concrete use cases.

The one that keeps on coming to mind to me is the one I do every day,
surfing the web and collecting snippets in my personal archive. For
instance, I go to Lucas' page, and I decide to bookmark it. Maybe,
I'd like to collect his contact information (vcard) at the same time
and link it to his page. Maybe, I'd like to examine the links on his
page and see who are friends of his (XFN) and whether we share any.

For me, that story is web-based and only incidentally converted to
other formats. I think it's a personal web aggregator that could be
on my own computer or on a public web page. In that way, it's Radio
Userland-esque.

How to monetize this? Subscriptions (a la Radio Userland). Maybe
advertising to users. Technorati makes money selling analytics
around the data.

Bud

On Aug 1, 2005, at 17:35, lucas_gonze wrote:

>
> Rambling about application flow, I think that the general outline will
> always be like this:
>
> 1) you're on a web page with something you want to reuse. We're using
> "reblogging" as a convenient shorthand for reusing stuff from a web
> page.
>
> 2) you grab the stuff, either with something like a Greasmonkey-based
> microformat parser or by clicking a link provided by the source page.
>
> 3) you send the stuff to the correct handler by using something like
> OpenURL, the Redirect This web service, or a MIME helper app.
>
> 4) the handler applies format-specific knowledge to the stuff (like an
> editor for hReview) and helps you route it to the final destination.
> This is where output-this fits in. I think that reblog.org also fits
> here, but I'm not sure.
>
> 5) the final destination publishes the stuff, for example by posting
> it on a blog. An example final destination is a Wordpress
> installation which receives data via the Atom API.
>
>
>
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