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Anselm wants to help Burning Man participants to barter better (cash transactions prohibited).

People's blogs would become 'wishlist blogs' and we'd match people up with complementary interests. Two things have to be done to do this:

1. We'll have to provide a small extension to MT so that MT can help people semantically tag their blog entries with <want> and <have> as well as <geo:Point> and <geo:Time>.
    
2. Also we'll have to provide a small aggregator that can search for matching entries. On headmap I wrote a simple search service as a proof of concept at headmap searcher [ note this service is not always up ] so making something like this run at Burning Man seems feasible with some work.

This is an example of a component blog application:

1. Someone with a particular purpose (helping a local marketplace) 
2. defining a new component (extending the weblog data model to include other content)
3. that other bloggers would discover and embrace (see adaptive blogosphere)
4. so new community services and clients can meet the needs.

via Marc via Danny.

Don Park:

I love the zeroconf stuff and am happy to see more open source zeroconf projects and products emerging.  Why? Because my instinct tells me this area of technology is going to explode soon. Mix zeroconf with location services and WiFi. Kaboom!

Me too. 

Brad Wilson's I Want Something New thread.

I want new blog software.

Now, there's nothing wrong with the crop of blog software out there, but it all pretty much works the same. I'm not even sure what I want different... I just want something different. What I want, really, is something so radically different that it's hard to even call it "blog software".

My contribution to the thread...

1. Blog anything.
• On request, blog more richly structured things (like sports scores, recipes, SAP transaction approvals). [xml packages, schema for structure, css for formatting, xul for edit layouts]
2. Syndicate anything.
3. Make it easy to define new kinds of things. And share them by blogging them.
4. Have your blogging tools discover and learn to use new kinds of things. On the fly.