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Re: [syndication] "Narrowcasting" RSS
In article <aeavu0+saoc@eGroups.com>, judielaine <jeb@grey-cat.com>
writes
>It seems most of the RSS paradigm leans towards "broadcasting," ie,
>the audience of the RSS item is as many folks as possible. I've been
>thinking about how useful it might be to make "saved searches" RSS
>documents. A user of my search engine could then add the RSS document
>of a saved search to the rest of their collection of RSS documents.
Maybe I've misunderstood but there are several search sites out there
that can optionally return results as RSS. Moreover, Snewp, NWFusion
spring to mind. I'm reading synthetic feeds from search parameters from
all three of these. Both in a personal aggregator and centralized ones
built with Drupal.
You say "a user of my search engine". If you really mean "My" then it's
a simple matter of code to output RSS instead of html and then letting
the users know it's available.
>The problem is the very personalized nature of the feed. My
>understanding of how most RSS aggregators work is that a central
>"authority" identifies and adds feeds to a particular interface.
That's just a matter of design. There are plenty of personal
aggregators, as well as central aggregators that allow personal
customization.
>PS: I was happy to discover, I'm not the only person to want saved
>searches available ia RSS: "In the future, I hope to retrieve saved
>searches from the popular news engines like World News via RSS feeds
>and postings to listservs to which I subscribe. " See
>http://www.llrx.com/features/rssforlibrarians.htm
I would love to see Google optionally return RSS from their normal
search engine. But then I'd also love to see Yahoogroups (and
livejournal) return the first 100 chars of the message in the
<description>. And there's a bunch of mainstream journalism sites that
I'd love to see support RSS. And the big money-big profile CMS don't yet
seem to output RSS by default. And the NYTimes really ought to have an
RSS feed instead of a proprietary format.
Even though Syndic8 now has >5000 feeds recorded, there's still more
evangelism to be done.
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