Re: [syndication] Digest Number 130

["Rick Winfield" <rick@rickwinfield.com>]

Thanks for the info Ian, I had downloaded some of your older notes from a
message on this list but will take a closer look at the newest info later
this week (I need to finish up the syndication format/system I'm working on
at work first thing this week so I can get examples to our partners).

Some quick thoughts:

1) I'd like to see a format that is painfully simple.  Something like RSS or
UserLand's new OPML format, something my HTML producer and project manager
can understand and even create documents using.

2) It needs to be supported by iSyndicate and Screaming Media.  Whether or
not these companies have the right model or what we think if them they are
very compelling to a small content company like the one I work for and we
plan to work with both (iSyndicate has their own very simple format and
luckily, you can add things to the XML and they'll just ignore the extra
elements).  Of course, with even a small amount of momentum behind a format
both these companies would have to support it.

3) I'm most interested in syndicating web pages.  I read a lot about
supporting different types of content but if that comes at the expense of
simplicity I think it would be best to have a format for web page
syndication and a different format for other content types.

I'm going to ask my boss if I can share our format (doubt it will be a
problem, but since the company does officially own it, I better ask).


----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 2:32 AM
Subject: [syndication] Digest Number 130


> There is 1 message in this issue.
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> Topics in this digest:
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>       1. Re: Introduction and Opinion
>            From: Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca>
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>    Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:38:30 -0400 (EDT)
>    From: Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca>
> Subject: Re: Introduction and Opinion
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> Hi Rick --
>
> With a colleague here at UofT (Toronto, not Texas) I have been pursuing
> this direction for a few months now, and have posted some messages on this
> topic on this group -- to little feedback unfortunately. However, we have
> soldiered on, and now have some reasonable notes up online explaining the
> issues as we see them, and providing some very early outlines for a
> possible XML syntax.  The notes are up at:
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> http://www.java.utoronto.ca/news/index.html
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> More material (outlining the rationale for some XML design decisions)
> will go up later this weekend or early next week.  I'm very pleased
> to find others who are interested in this same issue, and look forward
> to some fruitful discussions on more generic syndication issues.
>
> Ian
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> Ian Graham ............................ http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/
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> On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Rick Winfield wrote:
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> > Howdy Folks,
> >
> > I've been lurking on this list for a couple months now.  I'm currently
> > the CTO of a small web content company geared towards small businesses
> > online called workz.com and have spent the last couple months building
> > a content management and syndication (thus my interest in this list)
> > system for workz.  After talking with a few of my colleagues about
> > this whole RSS issue this afternoon I was inspired to follow Dave's
> > advice and write an essay about my opinions.  I'll warn you ahead of
> > time my opinions tend towards Dave's:
> >
> > http://rick.weblogs.com/stories/storyReader$46
> >
> > I'd love to see this list move beyond RSS and towards some more
> > general syndication issues.  Looking forward to the continued
> > conversation!
> >
> >
> >
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