Re: Channel 3475 - Please advise

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> Perhaps this *is* the way to go, but there would also need to be a
> little piece of javascript and an image (or whatever) that would
> point to this tag, and add it to the user's aggregator.
> Unfortunately, some state would need to be saved somewhere - if it's
> integrated in the browser, the browser can remember the user's
> aggregation engine. If it's not, where does it live?

Yeah, this is why this is such a tricky problem. My recommendation is to
store the metadata in the HEAD and then build systems (bookmarklets, etc.)
that take advantage of this metadata, but this has problems too.

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