Re: SSR-Enabling an RSS 2.0 Module

["Shelley Powers" <shelleyp@burningbird.net>]

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> Take RSS and add the  DC and FOAF vocabularies - we can now say 
that an
> identified document (rss:item) has been authored (dc:creator) by a
> particular person (foaf:Person). We know the feed comes from another
> person's (rss:channel -dc:creator-> foaf:Person) blog. We might 
find the
> description of the poems of Wordsworth by Shelley (either!) 
particularly
> interesting. So we ask our newsreader to highlight them if they 
appear.
> 
> To make it a bit more fun, call the newsreader our agent and give 
it the
> same rule to watch for items, but now ask it to find any recent 
additions to
> Shelley's blogroll and see if the authors of those blogs have 
recently
> written anything about Wordsworth. If they have, send a message to 
your
> mobile and buzz, unless you're in a meeting or bed (your schedule, 
expressed
> in another RDF vocabulary is checked using rules defined in OWL).
> 
> Coming back to syndication - there are semantics in RSS but they 
are very
> limited in scope. But if you view RSS more as a way of defining 
channels or
> pipelines for potentially any kind of information, it gets a lot 
more
> interesting. The basic RSS pieces like item (effectively the URI), 
title &
> date just become a bare minimum you're likely to want to know about
> something. Anything.
> 

Responded to this here 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blogunlimited/message/67.

Shelley