Re: [syndication] RSS in Two Directions

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

I think comments like that are useful as long as they don't get in the way
of ideas that don't complicate one thing and make two become one. My
takeaway from this is that scriptingNews format still does some useful stuff
that RSS doesn't. This is not shattering my worldview. ;-> Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Swartz" <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
To: <syndication@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 8:23 PM
Subject: [syndication] RSS in Two Directions


> It seems to me what we really want are two different formats. We want RSS,
> which allows us to aggregate news stories from different websites. It's a
> very useful format and is already being used by many websites. It was
> designed to create a personalized portal page for people (My Netscape) and
> that's what it's good at. While there are some features that would be nice
> to add to RSS, it's out there and it works.
>
> On the other hand, we want the scriptingNews format, which allows us to
send
> out real content -- not just links to news stories. This is why RSS always
> does so bad in the RSS vs. scriptingNews comparisons: they're two
different
> formats, with two different goals! This format needs to be developed more
> and recognized for what it's real use is. This is the format that keeps
> track of actual story content, allowing users to do all sorts of cool
> things. Because there's no HTML junk, this syndicated content can be sent
> out by email, set up for display on a Palm, converted to a format to be
> printed in the morning, etc.
>
> However, we need to recognize that these are two different formats with
two
> different goals. There are some people who are perfectly comfortable
> syndicating their content away and having it distributed on other people
> sites. But there are also some who aren't quite hip to the syndicated
> content revolution and would like to pull users back to their site and
only
> give away the URLs. Let's keep these separate, rather than make RSS an
> monstrous one-size-fits-all format.
>
> So what do you guys think? Am I making sense or am I totally off the wall?
>
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