Re: very basic question

[majo@textlab.de]

I had the impression that just any html site could read and display rss files with the 
help of some scripts or maybe browser plugins. From what I see, it seems you 
acctually need to register, you need specialised software and a fair amount of 
knowledge. I understand that some thousand people are now doing syndication. 
Whats missing to make this a real mass medium? Why is Microsoft envolved in 
this? Can you help me to get a birds eye view please. I am looking for information 
for an article in a major political/technological magazine in Europe. Any information 
in this direction would be extremely helpful. 

I've warned you ;-) Thanks again.
Manfred

--- In syndication@y..., "Dave Winer" <dave@u...> wrote:
> Craig's tutorials are real eye-openers..
> 
> Now, to your next question -- that varies from environment to environment.
> 
> In Manila, we have a macro called viewRssBox that does the job.
> 
> http://macros.userland.com/basic/viewRssBox
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <majo@t...>
> To: <syndication@y...>
> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 5:36 AM
> Subject: [syndication] Re: very basic question
> 
> 
> > this has been very helpful indeed. Its somehow not so easy to get the big
> picture,
> > while treading water in an ocean of details...;-)
> >
> > In between I've read/heard/seen a very nice tutorial by Craig Burton
> > http://www.craigburton.com/2001/04/18 which helped as well. I even managed
> to
> > publish and read RSS directly between a web site and my Radio desktop!
> >
> > OK, what if I want news to be syndicated from a web site not to a desktop
> machine but
> > to another web site? Say I'd publish news regualarly on my site and would
> like people
> > to subscribe to it and re-publish these (my) news on their web site? I
> suppose that
> > some Java or Javascript thingys would do the translation from RSS to html.
> Is this
> > right, and could you point me to such scripts, if they exist?
> >
> > Tkx many in advance,
> > Manfred
> >
> >
> > --- In syndication@y..., "Dave Winer" <dave@u...> wrote:
> > > To subscribe to a channel on a peer-to-peer basis all the subscriber
> needs
> > > to know is the URL of the XMLization of the channel. A lot of us are
> putting
> > > little XML graphics on our sites that point to our XML files. You can
> see it
> > > in the right edge of www.scripting.com, it's white on orange. Dave
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <majo@t...>
> > > To: <syndication@y...>
> > > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 9:55 PM
> > > Subject: [syndication] very basic question
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > I am a journalist and as such privileged to ask questions that are
> > > > obviously stupid. So please forgive my ignorance. I've done a bit of
> > > research
> > > > on rss, bloggs, syndication etc., and looked into Manila, Radio, etc.
> and
> > > > works of people like Aaron Swartz, Bob Green and others. Now this
> question
> > > > is left over: does all this inevitably require an aggregator like
> > > my.userland, or
> > > > is a sort of peer2peer syndication possible? Can I invite people to
> share
> > > my
> > > > news directly without the need to sign into a central switchboard?
> What
> > > > Aaron calls "blogify your page" seems to describe one half of what I
> mean.
> > > >
> > > > Or am I just missing something?
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > majo
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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