Re: [syndication] Approaches to show/performance schedule information in RSS

[Mark Fletcher <markf@wingedpig.com>]

John F. Pries wrote:

> We are currently serving RSS of internet radio show schedule 
> information in .91 and would like to better understand how RSS viewers 
> (client or server like yahoo) prioritize and age item information.
>
> The item url is static (across showtimes of a particular show), and 
> we're changing the item title and item description to include 
> descriptive showtime information (such as, the show is live now, or the 
> next scheduled time).
>
> The behavior we desire is to have the most recently updated (ie. live 
> now) shows on top, and the upcoming shows, ordered by start time, 
> further down the list.  We create the rss file in this order.
>
>  
There are no guarantees about how your data will be displayed. Different 
aggregators do different things. Bloglines, for example, displays items 
in date order, and allows the user to decide whether to show newest 
first or oldest first. When we detect a change in an item, we update the 
date on that item to when we received the change. One of the ideas of 
aggregation is to let the user control how they view the content.

Hope this helps.

Mark
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