Re: [syndication] Re: very basic question

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

1. You do not need to register, as you can see with Radio UserLand, there
are several discovery mechanisms built-in, and you can paste in a URL at the
top of the Syndication page. You can get the URL from anywhere.

2. I don't know what's missing to make it a mass medium. Maybe some press
saying it could be a mass medium? ;->

3. Microsoft is not, as far as I know, involved. I have asked them to take
an interest in RSS, my company is working with them on SOAP, and there is a
connection with SOAP, but so far they do not seem to be interested. This is
not a Bad Thing, imho, nor unexpected. Microsoft is not a
publishing-oriented developer. I suppose that could change.

4. What magazine are you writing for? Why do we need to be warned?

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: <majo@textlab.de>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 9:32 AM
Subject: [syndication] Re: very basic question


>
> 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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