RE: [syndication] locating syndication feeds

["Rael Dornfest" <rael@oreilly.com>]

Mark,

Thanks for taking the time to write this up; I'd very much like to see
this happen and will contribute when and where I can.

Just a quick comment on the format itself.  Why reinvent the wheel when:

  a) OCS [http://internetalchemy.org/ocs/index.html] already does much
of
     this and more.  I've never particularly been a fan of OCS -- gobs
     of folks find it confusing -- but it is already understood and used
     by aggregators and readers.

  B) Why not use RSS itself to produce channel lists?  Self-referential 
     niftiness aside, it's already well understood by those wishing to
     construct channel lists and leaves room for syndication of
syndicated
     feeds.  Of course it would take a tag or three in 0.9x, but 1.0
would
     require nothing more than a simple module along the lines of what
     you've already mocked up.

My $0.02.

Rael

> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 08:39:43PM -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> > 
> > As many have noticed, one of the biggest problems with 
> syndication is 
> > locating feeds. Often, you'll find a resource you'd like to 
> obtain a 
> > feed for, only to spend minutes (or hours!) scanning the 
> HTML source, 
> > "about" section of the site, and the top and bottom of every page.
> > 
> > This problem has been discussed before. I'd like to propose a 
> > solution, and try to move something forward.