Re: [syndication] XML-RPC and the Need to Cash In

[Jim Winstead <jimw-yahoo@trainedmonkey.com>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:10:10PM -0400, Morbus Iff wrote:
> First question, Dave: what would be the purpose of a server-side XML-RPC
> AmphetaDesk? I don't get what an XML-RPC server would do. Accept
> subscription requests from afar? Mirror subscriptions amongst like servers
> running on different boxes? Send aggregated usage information?

i could certainly be wrong, but i think that dave may have been
driving at the 'cloud' stuff in rss 0.92. you subscribe your client
(which is also a server) to another server, and that server contacts
your server to let you know there's new stuff. (got it? :)

the rest of your message appears to boil down to a distate for
the reality brought about by sturgeon's law[1]. not much advice to be
given on that, i think.

(oh, and on a different note, i'm publishing a few more scraped feeds
that people may find interesting, including 'nature science update'.
you can see the full list at http://trainedmonkey.com/news/feeds.php.)

jim

[1] http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Sturgeon%27s-Law.html