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Understanding Blogs, RSS, and Wikis: Evolution and Impact on Information Architecture

This overview explores the definitions, histories, and impacts of blogs, RSS feeds, and wikis. It traces the evolution of user-generated content from early discussions to today's dynamic platforms, highlighting their influences on communication and information architecture (IA). By examining key milestones, such as the rise of blogging services and the role of RSS in content distribution, as well as the contributions of pioneers like Vannevar Bush and Ward Cunningham, this piece contextualizes the shift towards active audience participation and the ongoing relevance of semantic structures in harnessing collective intelligence.

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Understanding Blogs, RSS, and Wikis: Evolution and Impact on Information Architecture

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  1. Blogs, RSS, and Wikis

  2. Overview • Blogs • Definition, history • Impact, examples • RSS • Definition, history • How it works, examples • Wikis • Definition, history • History, uses • What does all of this have in common, and why does it matter? • Definition, impact • What does this have to do with IA?

  3. Blogs • Definition • History • Pre 1998 • Blog hosting services • Proliferation • Impact • Trent Lott • The trend continues…

  4. RSS • Definition • History • How it works • Examples (RSS file and software)

  5. Wikis • Definition • History • Vannevar Bush: the Memex • Ward Cunningham • Uses

  6. User-Generated Content • Definition • Impact • “Packaged Goods” media to “Conversational” media • Passive audiences to active audiences • What does this have to do with IA? • Creating a semantic structure to harness collective intelligence • Microformats, RDF • Ongoing issues • Roles for IAs

  7. “The challenge for the next generation of the Social and Semantic Webs is to find the right match between what is put online and methods for doing useful reasoning with the data.” -Tom Gruber

  8. http://drmatthewashton.com/2011/02/11/great-mistakes-in-politics-no13-trent-lott-praises-strom-thurmond/http://drmatthewashton.com/2011/02/11/great-mistakes-in-politics-no13-trent-lott-praises-strom-thurmond/ http://nymag.com/news/media/15971/ http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-user-generated-content.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework Leuf, B., and W. Cunningham. The wiki way, quick collaboration on the web. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2001. Heath, T., and C. Bizer. Linked data, evolving the web into a global data space. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2011. Bush, Vannevar. As We May Think, The Atlantic Monthly, 176(1):101-108, July 1945. Gruber, Tom. Collective Knowledge Systems: Where the Social Web Meets the Semantic Web, Semantic Web and Web 2.0, 176(1):4-13, December 2007

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