“Stealing from the blogosphere”: ETCON Disney talk
Disney people are talking about how collaborative tools are used internally. In other words, it’s not just about personal publishing and opinions, it’s about efficiency and replacing paper.
Rather than pay for proprietary software (Foxpro DB with web front end). Smartly, they installed MT as a weblog, called them “shift logs”, and incorporated an RSS aggregator on each desktop inside Outlook.
As a content and broadcast company, ratings and quotes about the company are interesting - RSS aggregators help them do this.
“RSS feeds are for much more than weblog syndication”
Client side aggregation needs to move to server side aggregation
Need for authentication.