I was reading the following post, nodding my head, when the following quote blew me away.

 RSS is the New WWW

“PiNet Library enables teachers to keep bookmarks online, so that they are available from the classroom, media center, teacher's lounge, and home office -- anyplace with access to the web. In my vision, you are creating and cultivating a personal digital library….

I use PiNet Library for my online handouts, so that as I add new links to my library, they automatically show up on the online handouts pages. If those links could be subscribed to by your Bloglines account, then you could be notified of new web sites, without having to regularly visit the handouts.” [Exactly 2 Cents Worth, via del.icio.us/tag/rss]

This, for me, was a Neo moment. Whoa.

Last week, Leland Johnson pointed me to Rubric, which I’ll have to investigate further as my own del.icio.us (does anyone else remember a post somewhere, sometime that you could download the del.icio.us code to run on your own server?). I’ve also been contemplating running Rubric - or something like it – for my member libraries, both for individual use and institutional use, along with sharing what is added by both. I’m going to have to find the time to pursue this idea.

One other quote from this article turned on a light bulb, too.

“The news aggregator will need to evolve a great deal before RSS becomes the integral and ubiquitous part of our information environment that I suspect it will -- starting with the name. But I think that it is important that we start to think about information as something that we will increasingly shape to needs. How about sophisticated news aggregators as digital textbooks?

I believe that understanding these evolving aspects of how digital, networked content is organized is information grammar….”

I would l-o-v-e to put David and Will in a room together and see what they come out with! Much food for thought (and fodder for presentations!).