You might have noticed I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog front for the last couple of weeks. This is because I’m having a drive to send some ideas partying and have therefore been knee-deep coding my latest project most evenings.
I’ve put together an idea for people who run conferences or events. It’s called OneTag (www.onetag.org). It’s very simple conceptually, although as I’m discovering, a complete *dog* to code… – the idea is that it aggregates all the “buzz” about a particular (live) event and then provides the means to view this in different ways. Find out more at http://www.onetag.org/ot/about.asp.
Usual “it’s a beta” disclaimers apply…
I’ve agreed with David Bearman and Jennifer Trant that I’ll be trialling the system during the Museums and the Web 2008 conference in Montreal.
I need your help…
First off, if you’re going to the conference and intend to blog, twitter or upload any photos then the global tag follows the same pattern as previous years and is therefore mw2008. If you’re blogging then just add this as a tag or category; if you’re twittering then please use the hashtag #mw2008 as part of your tweet.
Second, if you’re the owner of a blog or other social networking site, will be blogging about the conference and have feed addresses you can supply me with, then let me know in the comments or via email and I’ll add these to the OneTag aggregator.
Finally, if you’d like to get access to the mw2008 OneTag feeds and views to help me test them then do feel free to get in touch – again, via email if you know it or using the comments to this post. Alternatively, tweet me direct at http://twitter.com/dmje.
I’m at the stage where as many critical eyes as possible is going to help muchly..
Thanks in advance!
My 
electronic museum 
Dan Z
March 24, 2008
I love this idea. Nice one Mike!
Nate Solas
March 24, 2008
Pretty sweet idea! I remember working with Jennifer last year to try to automatically ingest a feed from technorati for posts tagged MW2008, but can’t remember how far we got. Same with flickr – I think that one made it onto the conference site.
But this site could be the answer to all that mucking around… Is there a way to “redistribute” the combined content as a new feed? Or is that phase 2?
Looking forward to poking around!
Matt Jukes
March 24, 2008
weirdly enough been trying to pull something like this together for work i am doing around the jisc conference in April so would be interested to know how it goes – if you fancy another event to trial it at after mw2008 let me know – we have an established tag for the jisc conference and a number of people blogging, twittering, streaming etc it and I am overseeing all of that..
Mike
March 24, 2008
Hi Nate
Cheers for getting in touch.
Yeah, I started off assuming that I’d just do the same – use Technorati to do the aggregation – but have since realised that I wanted more control over the various feeds. Twitter has obviously also made a bit of a dent in the whole “doing it live” scene so I needed to aggregate tweets too. In the end I chose to do both (selected blogs and Technorati) and attempt to screen out any duplicate posts…
re. output feed – yes, absolutely. The system chucks out various RSS feeds which you can filter for time/tag/content but also a couple of views I’m working on now like a timeline of posts, ajaxy slideshow (hopefully for display on a plasma somewhere at the MW conference) and mobile version…
I’ll be in touch shortly 🙂
Cheers
Mike
Mike
March 24, 2008
Hey Matt
Yeah, definitely up for more ways to test. It’d probably be on a “it might break” basis but if you’re happy with that then that’d be cool.
I’ll drop you a line..
Cheers
Mike
Mike
March 24, 2008
Hey Matt
Definitely up for more ways to test. If you’re happy to trial it on a “very much beta” basis then that’d be great.
I’ll drop you a line..
Cheers
Mike
Mike
March 24, 2008
Thanks Dan!
jtrant
March 24, 2008
nate —
we did indeed pull the mw200x technorati feed into http://conference.archimuse.com/page/news_feeds for 2006 and 7, and will do it and again for 2008. {along with individual blog feeds]
i’ve also pulled flickr group pictures onto the conference site for the last couple of years. flickr groups go back to mw2005).
what’s still an unknown for me is how we are going to manage possible redundancy in these various sources… guess that’s why it’s beta, right?
jt
Jenny Brown
March 24, 2008
Perfect!
I blogged about wanting something similar recently:
http://www.jenny-bee.net/2008/03/10/i-want-it-all-in-one-place/
Give me a shout if you need some interfaces designed
🙂
Mike
March 24, 2008
Ta JB!
Frankie Roberto
March 25, 2008
Sounds interesting.
Have you investigated the BackNetwork service at all? See http://backnetwork.com/
bryan kennedy
March 28, 2008
Well I will be attending MATW and hopefully blogging about it on the Science Museum of Minnesota’s tech blog. I will definitely be twittering while I am there. So I will make sure to include the mw2008 tags. I’m excited to see what the results look like.
Jeremy Ottevanger
April 9, 2008
Hey Mike, been trying to get onto the MW2008 feed but my blog ain’t got no love at Technorati, so it doesn’t turn up in the feed you’re using in that Yahoo! Pipe at the moment. If you want to be sure you’re getting EVERYTHING, including my unauthoritative guff, you could tweak the Technorati feed to: http://feeds.technorati.com/search/mw2008?authority=n
Cheers, Jeremy
PS but it’s not worth it 🙂