Re: [syndication] "Narrowcasting" RSS

["Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>]

That is so cool. Thanks!

Now, if we get the RSS discovery stuff all lined up, it'll eventually all
"just work" (so i don't have to find out like this ;)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Aker" <brian@tangent.org>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [syndication] "Narrowcasting" RSS


> 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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