Re: [syndication] RE: [RSS-DEV] Cross-Site Unique ID Formats? And ID Debating...

[Julian Bond <julian@netmarketseurope.com>]

I'm working on a rant about this whole area which I'll publish here (and
other places). 

ISTM that there is a fixation here with "Channel" that is related to the
fixation with "Brand" in the world generally. As a user, frankly I could
care less exactly which magazine/website/channel published the news.
It's the content I care about. I don't want every news headline from
Line56. I want every news headline about a story which contains the
acronym "B2B". I want every news headline for articles written by Clay
Shirky, wherever they're published. And so on.

So I'm firmly in the camp of not caring if one channel is the same as
another and trying to identify this. Just categorize them so I can find
them and aggregate and re-index the content into new channels so it's
useful. And if a channel disappears (404) or doesn't publish for a
month, knock it out of the list.

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