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Usage
This Definition of MicroContent has several implications for usage:
- DataLibre: MicroContent Items should owned by their authors. An author should be able to change or delete an Item. Many services however do not this. Commenting functions of blog-systems are an example. (2209)
- Re-use: the basic idea around MicroContent is that allows for re-use of an Item. There exist many possibilities for re-use. Re-use is also called mashup. For optimal re-use one needs hooks to copy&paste&link a MicroContent Item. I call these the basic MicroContent Operations. (2557, 2426)
- Distributed: one of the basic ideas is that anyone can publish any MicroContent Item of any Type. MicroContent can be distributed. It is up to the various Service Providers (Aggregators, Mixers, etc.) to rassemble all the distributed Items for re-use. This contrasts with all centralised solutions, which often also provide a walled garden (you put something in, but can not take it out) (2591, 2581);
- MicroWebbing: once there are many single MicroContent Items on the Internet, one can start to connect them. There are many ways to connect the items. One can distinguish between aggregation and MicroWeb. In a MicroWeb one connects a single Item with another single Item. The structure of MicroContent allows to aggregate on the Field level. Thus one can create TagClouds, i.e. all Items sharing the same tag (2192). Trackbacks and pingbacks are ways to create the MicroWeb by linking individual Blog Items (2183)
- In order to help the creation of these webs one needs Operations. These operations help a user to make copies, make links, etc (2210, 2206). Operations are functions offered to the user by services or applications.
- InfoCloud: a user will publish many Items and use many Items. This is the users’ InfoCloud. One can extend the idea of an InfoCloud to a TagCloud, i.e. all the tags a users in interested in (2193). Related to this is the discovery of all the feeds/Items of a person (BrainRoll) or business. (2204, 2200, 2197)
Strongly related to re-use is privacy, access control and licences. (2254)