Etech 2005 - more tech news than you can flickr a wiki at

The 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference is underway with zillions of tech titans making announcements about all sorts of things.

You can attempt to surf the flood starting at

Conference Coverage
continuing on through their
Etech 2005 Wiki

Did you see the Plasma [screen] in the mezzanine? It's an Attention Stream. Want to see your stuff there? Post it to Flickr, ping Technorati, del.icio.us it, and tag it: etech05 or etech. There is also a live archive available, which in my opinion is a great way to see what happened at any point in time, without the need to search different source to get the whole picture.

That's right, to link it again, it's a conference with its own Attention Stream powered by tagging and other tech.

Anyway there are so many bazillions of things that I can't possibly indicate them all.
Here are a few that struck my fancy:

A9 has come up with this "let's put it in RSS" search extension idea: opensearch.a9.com

Many sites today return search results as a tightly integrated part of the website itself. Unfortunately, those search results can't be easily reused or made available elsewhere, as they are usually wrapped in HTML and don't follow any one convention. OpenSearch offers an alternative: an open format that will enable those search results to be displayed anywhere, anytime. Rather than introduce yet another proprietary or closed protocol, OpenSearch is a straightforward and backward-compatible extension of RSS 2.0, the widely adopted XML-based format for content syndication.

Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing sez Here are my notes from "Folksonomy, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mess," a conversation between Clay Shirky, Stewart "Flickr" Butterfield, Joshua "Delicious" Schachter and Jimmy "Wikipedia" Wales at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego: etech2005-folksonomy.txt

A new word: spag = tag spam.