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Introducing the Microcontent Client

Posted by TimSlavin at November 28, 2003

"Today, microcontent is being used as a more general term indicating content that conveys one primary idea or concept, is accessible through a single definitive URL or permalink, and is appropriately written and formatted for presentation in email clients, web browsers, or on handheld devices as needed. A day's weather forcast, the arrival and departure times for an airplane flight, an abstract from a long publication, or a single instant message can all be examples of microcontent."

Good (long) read that describes an important type of internet content that has been addressed fitfully so far, for example, email software clients, RSS readers, newsgroup readers. This reads like a white paper that will be distilled into a requirements document. It also sounds a lot like Open Source Applications Foundation, an effort to build an open source tool(s) to replace the folder/file metaphor used in today's operating systems (which the author appears to have in mind and which MIT's Technology Review covered recently). From Anil Dash at magazine and found through Amateur Hour. The latter is worth a read, too, as context.

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