Re: [syndication] Is a Feed the right place for your Data?

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

This isn't for aggregators, but if I wanted to load my weblog into another
program, I could just loop over all the days and get the RSS data. It's a
data interchange format. That was the point of my post. Having a format that
models a day's of weblog posts is cool, and all these formats we discuss can
do exactly that. Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Bond" <julian_bond@voidstar.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Is a Feed the right place for your Data?


> Dave Winer <dave@userland.com> wrote:
> >I'm working on a new Scripting News implementation, and thought it would
be
> >interesting to have each day have its own white-on-orange XML button.
Click
> >on it and you get the RSS representation for that day.
>
> How do you think these sorts of micro feeds should get displayed and
> consumed?
>
> IMHO, things like this, along with comments feeds for a single post
> don't really work with most of the current aggregators. Adding a new
> feed to an aggregator is usually a comparatively big exercise so most of
> them assume that you might have 50-200 feeds in total. If we think of
> these feeds being automatically found and added (as might happen with
> post-comment feeds) then we have to provide a common mechanism for the
> software to use to do this.
>
> To get back to your specific implementation, I can't imagine I'd
> subscribe to the feed for the "Scripting News on Labor Day 2002 page".
> Presumably it won't change very often, so I wonder why I'd collect it or
> spider it or something, more than once. If it's metadata about the page,
> then just embed it in the Head. If it's an alternate representation,
> then why and for what/who?
>
> Note, these are rhetorical musings rather than demands for answers.
>
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