Re: [syndication] Re: Subscribe ? - Newbie question

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

I heard my name. ;->

I can try to define what "subscribe" means in the context that I use it.

First, a change in perspective.

Instead of thinking of an aggregator as something that lives in the cloud,
think of it on your desktop.

Instead of three-five aggregators think of thousands.

Every hour at the top of the hour your personal aggregator reads the RSS
files that you've subscribed to. (There's the word.)

My list is here:

http://www.ourfavoritesongs.com/users/dave@userland.com/rss/misc/mySubscript
ions.opml

Your personal aggregator figures out which items are new and presents them
to you.

You can then "route" these according to categories you've created. (It's
easy to add or delete them.)

Each of these categories is also a RSS channel.

Other people can subscribe to them.

So one person's output becomes anothers' input.

Does this make sense?

Dave



----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Bond" <julian@netmarketseurope.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Re: Subscribe ? - Newbie question


> In article <B6A2C2D6.21C7E%aswartz@swartzfam.com>, Aaron Swartz
> <aswartz@swartzfam.com> writes
> >Julian Bond <julian@netmarketseurope.com> wrote:
> >
> >> People talk about "Subscribing" to a channel. What does this mean? Is
it
> >> to do with the IE4 Channel Bar?
> >
> >You need to provide more context -- I think it generally refers to an
> >abstract idea of "subscribing" independent of any one system (by email,
> >through Headline Viewer, with My.Userland/My.Netscape, etc.).
>
> Specifically, Dave W in scripting news, so I guess it's My.Userland.
> In my case, I sub to the Moreover "Vertical Portal" category with a
> daily email for work research into B2B commerce.
>
> What was confusing me was that IE5 no longer has the channel bar and
> doesn't seem to know what to do with an RSS file. The file gets the
> channel icon if saved locally, but when clicking on it IE5 comes up but
> then nothing happens or gets displayed. Somewhere along the way, MS seem
> to have thrown something away.
>
> Headline viewer is the only program I've seen that runs locally and
> knows what to do with a channel file. Are there any others?
>
> --
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