Marc Canter has revived an idea a bunch of us were talking about five years ago in a conversation instigated by David Weinberger. ThreadML was most simply described as “a standard way for applications to interchange threaded discussions with little or no data loss.” Marc describes the need for this, “an open standard to unite disparate kinds of conversations, threads, IM sessions, comments, tracks, mail lists, etc. These conversations get started on all sorts of service, in many different ways.” It’s “more than just some schema. It’s a system that unites conversations and stores them as ‘memes.’ Here’s a graphic Marc came up with:
I’m wondering who has the time, energy, and grasp to pick up on this and make it happen?
