Re: Sharing discussion area info

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

(cc-ing RSS-DEV becuase this relates to a possible 1.0 module)

Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> wrote:

> So information on the 15 most recently discussed topics on Flutterby
> is available at http://www.flutterby.com/discuss.rdf in RSS1.0 using
> the namespace "discuss", updated hourly. A quick "how I created this
> in Perl" is at http://www.flutterby.com/software/rssdiscuss/

Some quick comments:

1) You may be better off talking about the Flutterby entry and mentioning
that it references a certain number of URIs, rather than mentioning the URIs
and referencing the Flutterby entry. This will allow you to reference all of
the URIs you discuss and will fix the currently broken part of your feed
where you don't talk about any URIs.

2) When you talk about URIs in RDF, it's best to use the following syntax:

<discuss:url rdf:resource="http://example.org"; />

That way RDF processors know it's a URI and can treat it as such. This is
pretty important.

> I'm completely unaware of any culture or politics around extensions and the
> like.

We've had some plans for a discussion module (which I feel is really
important) but they haven't developed too far. If you'd like to join RSS-DEV
and help us hash it out, it'd be really appreciated.

-- 
[ Aaron Swartz | me@aaronsw.com | http://www.aaronsw.com ]