Attention Streams

01.11.06

An attention stream is like a group-edited newswire built using an agreed upon tag to designate items found online as of interest to the group subscribed to the stream.

Though subscribers usually use its RSS feed, it is possible to recieve an attention stream by email as well (for example with Feedburner's partner service Feedblitz).

To get an idea what this looks like, here are posts I've made about two attention streams I participate in:

NPTech, an attention stream for items of interest to non profit technologists. The feed itself is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/NptechMetaFeed. Feel free to click on that link to see the newest items submitted.

WebJustice2.0, a news wire and repository for items online related to gender, class, racial and other types of inequities in the emerging Web 2.0 world. The feed itself (the prior link is to an explanation of it) is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/webjustice20.

If you have a community of interest online, whose members are familiar enough with the tools involved, you can create an attention stream on any subject. You just need an agreed upon and arbitrary tag to designate items for the stream. Further instructions for a feed creator can be found in either of the posts linked to above.


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16 Responses to “Attention Streams”

  1. Marshall Kirkpatrick » Adding resource links and defining Web 2.0 Says:
    January 12th, 2006 at

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  2. James E. Lee Says:
    March 9th, 2006 at

    Thanks for posting this, as well as your recent FeedBurner post; both are great tips!

    I modified my article on metafeeds to include what you’ve done.
    It seems like a lot of FB users want to create metafeeds with FB, but unfortunately, the FB forums that I’ve seen addressing this are locked. Unfortunately, no one there seems to have found your post and realized this is possible.

    Anyway, I really appreciate you sharing your work! I guess it’s time to move your blog out of my Audition folder in Bloglines. ;)

  3. John Tropea Says:
    June 20th, 2006 at

    What do you mean by agreed upon tag, have you just run a unique del.icio.us tag through Feedburner.

    You could re-syndicate the feed of this del.icio.us tag to SuprGlu so you have a blog display…then maybe run the SuprGlu feed through feedburner.

    Before you run the the SuprGlu feed through feedburner you could splice it with a newsgator online save folder RSS…just another option.

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