RE: [syndication] Re: My take on shared feed lists

["Chad Everett" <yahoogroups@jayseae.cxliv.org>]

I think this is where I'm getting lost.  In short, I don't understand why
non-blog sites are any different from blog sites.

While there's definitely a difference between per-site and per-blog (or
per-category or whatever), will it really happen that all the feeds would be
available only from the root domain, even on a non-blog site?

While I can see a non-blog site wanting to provide a list of every single
feed available on example.com, wouldn't it also make sense that they would
want to provide a subset of that list, say for all sports-related feeds, at
example.com/sports?  And then all NBA feeds at example.com/sports/nba?

Once you get there, there isn't much difference between blog and non-blog
sites.  The features are so similar, planning only for the top-level
supposedly desired by a non-blog site doesn't seem that it would make a
bunch of sense.  Surely we can implement something that would be usable at
any level of the tree in either situation.

It would also seem that whether those are feeds within an area (ie, team
feeds under NBA), surely something like this could handle different feed
formats (rss 1.0/rdf vs rss 2.0 vs atom) or layouts (excerpts only vs. full
feeds) of the same content.



-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Fletcher [mailto:markf@wingedpig.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 11:21 AM
To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [syndication] Re: My take on shared feed lists

I guess the proposal under discussion is just a different way of 
presenting that data, or for dealing with it at one level up, on a 
per-site basis, instead of a per-blog basis.