Bot Herding With RSS
Author(s) -
George Easton,
Annette Easton
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of management and information systems (ijmis)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1546-5748
pISSN - 2157-9628
DOI - 10.19030/ijmis.v15i3.4644
Subject(s) - rss , herding , class (philosophy) , course (navigation) , web syndication , outcome (game theory) , computer science , period (music) , world wide web , advertising , business , mathematics , engineering , geography , art , artificial intelligence , mathematical economics , forestry , finance , venture capital , aerospace engineering , aesthetics
Students in a large, introductory IT course created individual RSS feeds that pointed to personal content and syndicated, course-related content. In a relatively short period the class had amassed approximately 1000 web resources. The process paralleled one of a benevolent bot herder; the outcome stimulated an interest in social computing.
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