Re: [syndication] Re: eXtensible Content Syndication (the next step for OCS)

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

On Sunday, August 12, 2001, at 05:02  PM, burtonator wrote:

> > Yes, I think it'd be nice to use RDF, especially since a lot 
> > of RSS clients
> > will be/are using RDF datastores. However, I tend to think 
> > using RSS would be
> > even better since it does just about everything we want out of 
> > this format,
> > and there are a gazillion tools to use.
>
> I don't think that RSS is sufficient.  If we took RSS and added 
> about 5 modules
> then maybe.  At this point it really wouldn't be RSS anymore. :)

Well, it would be, from my point of view, because I can use the 
associated RSS infrastructure, most of which doesn't care how 
many modules we throw at it but chugs happily anyway.

I'm suggesting we use RSS as a starting point, and add to it. 
Obviously, it is not the end of the game.

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