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

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney@syndic8.com>]

Indeed, some of us have been doing this sort of thing for ages.

http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/archives/entries/000521.html.xml

-Bill Kearney

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>
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Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Is a Feed the right place for your Data?


> 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
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> ----- 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?
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> > 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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