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

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

FYI, Netscape already did this, when they rolled out My.Netscape.Com. They
have a nice little badge that you click on to add the site to your
collection of sites on their site. Sounds complicated, but it's easy.

We went for something more generic and less self-promotional, a
white-on-orange XML icon, that says "If you click on this you'll see the XML
version of this page." It's on Scripting News now, and you'll see it on new
Manila sites soon. Jeff Barr is using the white-on-orange graphic, with our
blessing, on his Newsfeeds weblog.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Brickley" <daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Re: Channel 3475 - Please advise


> On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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> >
> > 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
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