> At 9:45 am +0100 13/7/05, Adrian Stevenson wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >> I don't think that the centrally-provided information
> resource
> >> is the route we should be going down.
> >> Providers of training courses, conferences, etc. should be
> >> providing RSS feeds - for example, Netskills have RSS
> feeds of their
> >> forthcoming workshops which could be embedded in your page.
> >
...
> Maybe something a bit more structured, like an event calendar?
> Possibly that's *too* structured.
RSS + Microformats, then.
See http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar
You do the RSS for your own benefit and use events microformats and
folksonomies as it's easy to do. Clever robots (Technorati, ...) with then
find the stuff.
The technologies are there for us to use.
Brian
PS It's a bit more complicated than this, but I've got a paper to write :-)
And maybe project IUGO will held address this (see Pete Walker's email).
> I think this is a really good idea, but I'm now just going to
> hide under my desk until someone else does it...
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