Re: [syndication] Blogger and RSS

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

> Is there anything that can be done to help Blogger users generate RSS?
> As I understand it, this is not part of the standard package.

I've been thinking about that, of course, as I've been implementing glue [1]
that connects up to the new Blogger XML-RPC interface.

So far, the methods he's been implementing flow content into Blogger, as
soon as there are methods for going the other way, we'll be able to generate
RSS from Blogger blogs.

Now, if for some reason he doesn't implement methods for that kind of flow,
we'll go to Plan B, where the user edits the content on their desktop, and
flows it up to the Blogger cloud, but retains a copy on their local system,
so we can generate RSS from it.

I'd much prefer Plan A.

BTW, if Blogger implemented RSS, it would probably be of the all-description
variety, like the stuff that Radio implements. It's an interesting brain
puzzle to figure out how to derive RSS from completely unstructured stuff,
which is what you see on most blogs, ours included.

Dave

[1] http://frontier.userland.com/blogger