"Paolo at eVectors wrote up his deployment of the Radio Community Server.  Every person at his company uses Radio on the desktop.  They publish personal weblogs to the Intranet via an RSS server.  They use Radio categories to publish topic specific weblogs.  Their Intranet server aggregates RSS feeds from the multiple employee weblogs (both their main weblog and their category specific weblogs).  The Intranet server also integrates data from their accounting system (this could be generalized to extend to any source of application specific data that is aggegated centrally via web services), hosts discussion groups, manages task lists, and serves as centralized document store.  Their Intranet is a portal to all the information, people, and feeds that are available.  Nice."  [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

I'm going to have to give Paolo's setup some serious consideration to see if it (or something similar) could work at SLS. I don't know that it would work for the extranet, but perhaps it could be one piece of the puzzle for the intranet. Question: what languages would I have to learn to truly understand Paolo's diagram and to be able to tweak it to do what I want at SLS? SOAP, XML-RPC, RSS, UserTalk...?

I'm adding Todd Gitlin's book, Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives to The Shifted Reading List, thanks to Librarians Anonymous.

I'm also going to try to keep up with LA, but it's getting more difficult to keep up with blogs that don't have RSS feeds because I have to manually visit them all, rather than having them appear automatically in my aggregator. Steven did this, and now I keep up with his site very easily. So if you have a Blogger site, you might want to consider using RSSify to create a feed for it.