Re: [syndication] Re: Channel 3475 - Please advise

[Dan Brickley <daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> 
> Devil's advocate - 
> 
> As RSS, aggregation, etc. gets more popular, finding channels won't
> be done by going to directories, hotlists, etc. Instead, people will
> find RSS files that they're interested in the same way they find out
> about other content which appeals to them; through friends, e-mail,
> Web sites they visit, etc.

I completely agree. Once we nail down some simple conventions (eg. how
does one point from the home page of a site to its channel? LINK
REL="meta" perhaps?) these channels will become part of the
general, hypertext, Web. 

Dan