Re: [syndication] My.UserLand.Com aggregator turned off

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

The validator is still running.

It's the aggregator that's off.

There are other mistakes in this message, but this list tends to flame so I
won't bother correcting them.

Have a great day.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod Davies" <rdavies@orientpacific.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 2:00 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] My.UserLand.Com aggregator turned off


> Dave has to be given a lot of credit for spreading the gospel of RSS.
>
> I remember my first exposure to RSS was through userland, and learned all
> the basic stuff from there, and got directed to many resources.
>
> I'm sure I'm not the only one who was excited by userland and the
> potentials. So a hearty thanks Dave for all your work.
>
> As we know userland has had trouble keeping up lately with lots of
> registered feeds not updating. I'm sure it just became too much of a chore
> to keep it running, especially for what was a free service, and one that
> cost a lot to run I'm sure.  Dave has every right to focus on revenue
> generating projects such as Radio after so much free service to spreading
> the gospel of RSS.
>
> I have no doubt that this mission is now being taken up by the hard
working
> volunteers at Syndic8, though of course I believe Syndic8's focus is on
> development and documenting feeds - an application like the userland
latest
> updated RSS items does not seem within the mission at present. The
> Whytheville resource I think, has been offering direct access to feeds
> rather than through userland for 12 months or so, though it is not
> encouraged for server load reasons I am sure.
>
> We still need a validator, is there any now available? how about on the
> Syndic8 site?
>
>
> At 16:20 13-01-02, you wrote:
> >In article <075301c19bf9$678b29e0$33a1dc40@murphy>, Dave Winer
> ><dave@userland.com> writes
> > >Dear Syndicators, today I put the My.UserLand.Com aggregator to rest.
It
> > >served us well, but had fallen behind its decentralized grandchild--
the
> > >aggregator in Radio UserLand.
> >
> >All things must pass. But this is quite a shame.
> >
> >My.Userland has performed a useful set of services to the RSS community,
> >such as the Validator. There's also code out there that depended on it
> >such as the Wytheville RSS->Javascript tool[1].
> >
> >As I've mentioned before, some of the My.Userland functionality could
> >usefully be rolled into weblogs.com. In particular, producing a list of
> >recently changed RSS sources with the URL of the RSS instead of the html
> >representation.
> >
> >Maybe this is another example of "The end of free". But hopefully some
> >(or more) of the services provided by my.userland will be picked up by
> >others such as Syndic8[2]. They've already effectively taken over
> >responsibility for keeping the directory of all known RSS feeds.
> >
> >[1]http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/services/news/
> >[2]http://www.syndic8.com
> >
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