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Last night I spoke to the Australian Computer Society's OOSig and the Open Source Sig - the topic was Blogs, Syndication, and BottomFeeder. It went pretty well - there was a higher than average turnout, and we had a good discussion on the topics. One thing hit home to me again when I gave this talk - Syndication (RSS/Atom) and News Aggregators are still very much a niche usage. I started out by asking how many people knew about and read blogs - maybe 5 people raised their hands (out of 20+ people). It shrank to 2 people by the time I got to "how many of you know what a news aggregator is?". As cool a topic as many of think this is, there's a ton of end user education left to do. Oh, one last thing - I said I'd get the presentation posted - here are the slides
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