Yesterday I tuned in (via elluminate) to Open, Connected, and Social (Many too Many?). D'arcy Norman was talking about aggregating content produced by students in a particular class from various services (wordpress.com, institutional blogging service, flickr, etc). This is in contrast to the traditional LMS model, where all the content creation happens in one central location that becomes inaccessible after the class is over and can never be accessed by people not involved in the class.
D'Arcy has been experimenting with using Blog Bridge Feed Library to gather all these feeds together. He just might be on to something, although I don't know if the average user should have to ever see or copy and paste an rss url. Then again, perhaps that is just the price we will have to pay to have an open (not-centralized) content playing field. Users deal with email addresses and web site URLs, why not rss urls. It just may take some more time to catch on. As I am writing this today, I really am of two minds about it.
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