Re: [syndication] "Narrowcasting" RSS

[Brian Aker <brian@tangent.org>]

On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 13:54, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> On a related note, one of the things that I'd like to see is RSS to be
> offered as a more dynamic, customizable feed in other contexts as well.
> For example. Slashdot allows users to customise what categories they see,
> but the RSS feed is just a firehose of whatever's published. RSS is just
> another format that's more machine-digestable than HTML; when the content
> is list-based, it should be available in both representations.
Actually most links take content_type=rss as an option. So using this
and say the search engine you can pull quite a bit of data out of a
slash site (depends a little on what the site allows to be exported, for
instance Slashdot does not export descriptions). 
Search, submissions, Journals, comments (via search), our rss feeds, and
quite a few other things are all available via RSS. For each Slash site
it is a matter of what has been enabled or not. 

	-Brian
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