HW: 16-B, Pillars

After reading “Blogs: Humanizing the Face of Corporate America” an interview with Robert Scoble, the five pillars of conversational software. He say that RSS (which means “really simple syndication”) “is a teache’s way of saying it allows a blogger to offr his weblog for people to subscribe to, as well as to integrate links and news from other websites.” His five pillars include: one, is the “ease of Publishing” meaning it would be really easy to publish integrated links and news from other websites and post them onto your blog. Two, which is “discoverability” allows you to personalize and customized a blog for a companies own site (http://feedster.com/corporate/). Third is “cross-sire conversations” which allows a person to see who linked theirselfs to trackbacks. Fourth would be “permalinking” which is just allowing a person to isolate a website that will directly link you to a post. Finally the fifth is “syndication” which just means that everything just joins together. It is kind of hard to understand what Scoble means but once you learn RSS, its not that difficult.