Re: [RSS-DEV] RSS for Everyone

[Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>]

>To increase adoption, I think a few things need to happen.  Users need
>to know about aggregators.  The only print article I have seen was in
>some linux magazine.  How about "the economist" or some maintream

That was for AmphetaDesk, I believe. Linux Magazine. There have been 
various articles in newspapers, and some in library/research journals as 
well. Most, however, have been online.

>I think tutorials on marking up RSS with RDF for these applications
>would be valuable.  Something your typical webmaster/webprogrammer can
>figure out.  I think the blog applications have enough momentum that

I always refer people to Nottingham's: http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/

>And maybe guidlines for designing URIs.  I have been thinking about
>this a bit lately -- should the URI path define the channel?
>
>http://host/press/rss
>http://host/jobs/rss

As per http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html, this is a bad idea:

 >Software mechanisms. Look for "cgi", "exec" and other give-away "look
 >what software we are using" bits in URIs. Anyone want to commit to
 >using perl cgi scripts all their lives? Nope? Cut out the .pl. Read
 >the server manual on how to do it.

>or should the query define the channel?
>http://host/rss?category=jobs&category=press

I'd modify this to:
http://host/xml?category=jobs&category=press or 
http://host/syndicate?category=jobs&category=press

>>The FOAF vocabulary looks like its going to be the first that will be in

I largely see FOAF as to RDF as RSS was to XML. RSS is the largest 
user-suppoted format of XML (assuming, generically, all flavors of RSS, not 
just RSS 1.0), and I'd certainly like to see FOAF be it for RDF.


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