Yesterday I went to the MDR SIG meeting at Birkbeck College, London, and gave a demo of FeedForward. In particular I was showing off how to make a quick reading list from resources that had been aggregated from journal RSS feeds, blog feeds, and so on, and then share this as both Del.icio.us bookmarks, a blog post on WordPress, and also as a learning object on IntraLibrary. In each case the FeedForward services component works behind the scenes to generate the relevant API requests, in the last instance by dynamically constructing an IMS Content Package with Learning Object Metadata that gets deposited using SWORD. Despite the best efforts of the bizarre Birkbeck Wi-Fi security the demo worked fine!
One interesting coincidence is a post by Stephen Downes today called Finely Tuned Antennae; this is the slide I lead with, and comes from a discussion with Paul Walk on the topic of information usage flows, one that is very closely aligned with FeedForward’s design, which (to complete the circle) was also inspired by RSSWritr, a prototype developed by Stephen Downes.
EDIT: Catherine Howell was there too, yesterday, and you can read her blog post about it here.