Re: [syndication] RSS in Two Directions

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Dave Winer <dave@userland.com> wrote:

> I think comments like that are useful as long as they don't get in the way
> of ideas that don't complicate one thing and make two become one. My
> takeaway from this is that scriptingNews format still does some useful stuff
> that RSS doesn't. This is not shattering my worldview.

Here's my problem: I want the Scripting News RSS file to give me the
headlines on your site (assumedly the stuff in bold), so that I can see if
you're talking about anything interesting today. If you are, I can click
over and see what you wrote.

However, you're trying to use it like ScriptingNews -- as a syndication
system to get your content out there. As everyone has pointed out, this
doesn't work. So why don't you provide an RSS file that does what RSS is
good at, letting people know what _you_'re talking about and letting them
decide whether they want to read it. I think this is a much more effective
and appropriate use of the format. What does everyone else think?

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