Sen No Sen

As the old year draws to a close, Ton Zylstra provides a thoughtful post on the evolutionary direction weblogs need to take in future.

His concept of Personal Presence Portals, along with Mac Canter’s Digital Lifestyle Aggregators, points to an increasing degree of integration of what are still separate tools and services that facilitate collaboration, sharing and exchange amongst ever growing numbers around the globe…. towards greater Collective Intelligence.

Heaven knows, that’s what the world needs.

Robin Good reports on the continuing decline of Internet Explorer’s share in the browser market…

The perfect icon for the occasion by courtesy of The Schockwellenreiter.

First Forbes, then Fortune, now the BBC confirms the power of blogs.

But the real question is, will the BBC follow the visionary example set by the French newspaper Le Monde : providing blogs to it’s readers under their own brand and mixing their journalists blogs and their readers blogs, showing them at the same level, based on blog readers recommendations?

If they don’t - others most certainly will.

Oh, and while we’re at it - Forbes’ latest article: Feed Me, hints at how RSS threatens to bypass those who refuse to see the light.

If one hasn’t used them yet, one could easily overlook the fundamental importance and enormous potential that is evolving in and around del.icio.us and Flickr.

In the coming year, I suspect, it will no longer be so easy to overlook.

Here’s an interesting study that may help to illustrate why: Bookmark, Classify and Share.

(via iCite Blog)