Le Blog de Netpolitique

Ce que l'on n'entend pas, n'a pas d'importance. Ce que l'on ne voit pas n'existe pas. La Banque mondiale, consciente de la difficulté pour les acteurs de la société civile à entendre, et à se faire entendre, sur le web, met à disposition un meta-aggrégateur de veille en open source.

Like many organizations, we started listening to blogs and other forms of social media by subscribing to a blog search engine RSS feed but quickly understood it was not enough. The World Bank is a global institution and we needed to listen in multiple languages, across multiple plaforms. We needed something that would aggregate all this content, help us make sense of it and allow us to collaborate around it. At the time, no solution (either commercial or open source) met those requirements so we decided to build our own. (...)

Obviously, there are some quirks, a bit of noise in the signal and it could definitely have more features but it is a very useful tool for communities and organizations interested in tracking blogs, podcasts, videos, photos that talk about a specific issue.

Un bel engin promis à des améliorations régulières. Par contre, ça ne permet pas encore de veiller Twitter et Second Life ;-)