Lightweight event syndication with trusted feeds « Jon Udell

Lightweight event syndication with trusted feeds « Jon Udell:

the item carries enough information to participate in a (still mostly nascent) network of calendar events. Beau Bristow doesn’t know that his concert shows up at elmcity.info, or that on March 7 it’ll show up at citizenkeene.ning.org and cheshiretv.org. And he shouldn’t need to know. But he ought to be able to take it for granted that events he posts to some kind of syndication source — could be Eventful, could be another public service, could be a personal iCalendar feed — will propagate.

I am particularly fascinated by the lightweight, ad-hoc interaction between Eventful, Beau Bristow, and elmcity.info. This lightness is a powerful enabler.

I like to pay attention to the things Jon Udell does. This one really caught my eye. I’ve been interested in and exploring local and hyperlocal setups for a while, and this setup, with calendar event streaming into a distributed hyperlocal environment.

Wow; fun stuff. Stop and think for a second of a central server everyone can feed events to; they’re tagged and geotagged. From there, any site can subscribe to events via tagging and/or geotagging to create a custom feed of events that meet specific criteria. As he notes, some kind of moderation is needed, so you more or less filter that feed into a whitelist, a blacklist and a greylist, with some kind of notification that the greylist needs moderation as needed.

Suddenly, someone doesn’t need to know about a given site to submit an event to it; they merely need to feed the event into the system, and if it fits your criteria for your site, it shows up.

Even better, if you tie this into a search engine spider and maybe use microformats, you don’t even need to submit; simply placing the info in the right format on your site is enough to generate the event…

Some real potential here, no?

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