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  <title>Comments for Topics: Automatic for the People</title>
  
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    <published>2004-05-21T18:45:04Z</published>
    <updated>2007-12-16T23:15:32Z</updated>
    <title>Topics: Automatic for the People</title>
    <summary>Matt Mower&apos;s written a great explanation of how the K-Collector aggregation process works. KC is a very clever system and I&apos;m pleased to hear it doesn&apos;t actually require the KC client app on Radio or MT in order for people to participate in the KC community. What I will do is continue with my own...</summary>
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      <name>Richard MacManus</name>
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      <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://matt.blogs.it/2004/05/20.html#a1472">Matt Mower's written a great explanation</a> of
how the K-Collector aggregation process
works.
KC
is
a very clever system and I'm pleased to hear it doesn't actually require the
KC
client
app
on Radio
or
MT
in order
for
people to participate in the KC community.</p>
<p>What I will do is continue with my own experiments with Movable Type. I already
  have the TE cloud reference in my RSS template, so I'll add the KC cloud reference
  too. Then as I write posts I'll add topics using my chosen MT field (at this
  stage 'Keyword', but I'll probably change to 'Category'). </p>
<p>Note that I
    could download the MT client Matt's created, but I'd actually rather play
  around myself with MT and see how both KC and TE pick up my posts.</p>
<p>Likewise, I've asked <a href="http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/">Phil Pearson</a> if
  Topic Exchange can pick up my ENT data from my RSS feed automatically. If I
  can get both KC and TE  aggregating my ENT
  data, without me having to ping either one, I'll be a happy man :-)</p>
<p>Also I should perhaps clarify my goals with all this. In the short-term I
  want to:</p>
<p>1) Set-up MT so that I can add topic data to <strong>both</strong> KC and
TE.</p>
<p>2) Set-up my own internal topic navigation, which ideally I'd like to synch
  with KC and TE (in terms of topic names).</p>
<p>For now I'll leave the hard part aside - i.e. synching topic data between
  KC and TE. Matt's done a lot of work on this in the past, using XFML and XTM
  and so forth, and so he can tell you it's not a trivial task. So let's call
  that a long-term goal.</p>
<p>I guess my remaining goal for the short-term is to try and convince Phil to
  get TE to automatically aggregate my ENT data from my RSS feed. But being a
  humble user, I've no idea how difficult a request this is - i.e. it's easy
  for me to ask the question, it may be a lot harder for Phil to do the work
  ;-) So I don't want to press the issue...</p>
<p>Also, I want to investigate <a href="http://www.blogdigger.com/">Blogdigger</a> some more to see how I can tie in my
  topic navigation experiments with Bloggdigger's categorisation system. <a href="http://www.blogdigger.com/blog/index.html">Greg</a>
  - any ideas for that?</p>]]>
      
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    <id>tag:72.47.210.69,2004://1.4211-comment:35421</id>
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    <title>Comment from Greg Gershman on 2004-05-20</title>
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        <name>Greg Gershman</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Cool.  I'm really keen on this whole topic sharing thing; I think it provides significant power when done within a single context or hierarchy, which seems to be what ENT/TopicExchnage provide.  </p>

<p>Think about a Blogdigger Group - and the popular subjects that are associated with each group.  If you had a way to import the topics from a defined group of blogs that you felt focused on similar ideas as you...and they all did the same...you are all adding to a shared hierarchy.  </p>

<p>It's not much different than K-Collector, which arguably works better in a controlled environment, rather than on the Net.  The main difference - your topics can exist on their own (Blogdigger uses the more common dc:subject and/or RSS 2.0 category tags) as well as within the context of a Group (or several groups).</p>

<p>I'd be happy to whip up some form of export for the topics of a group, probably XTM or something like that.</p>

<p>By the way, I would totally blog this, but my blog is still non-functional.</p>]]>
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    <published>2004-05-21T03:51:19Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Richard MacManus on 2004-05-24</title>
    <author>
        <name>Richard MacManus</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Thanks Greg for your feedback. I have both ENT and  enabled now in my blog, so let's see what we can do with them...</p>]]>
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    <published>2004-05-24T20:19:32Z</published>
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