Re: [syndication] Radio and Syndication

[Gary Teter <bigdog@bulldogbeach.com>]

on 5/15/01 10:42 AM, Morbus Iff at morbus@disobey.com wrote:

> At 01:31 PM 5/15/01, Dave Winer wrote:
>> The hotlist only measures the people who have updated their subscription
>> list in the cloud in the last 24 hours.
> 
> Very good. I had asked you this privately in the past before, but I may as
> well tempt the devil and ask publically: Any chance of creating an
> "any-client" cloud for listings?
> 
> You could have your RU only cloud, but also provide an XML-RPC interface to
> another cloud that any client could send subscription lists too for
> measuring. Thoughts?

Mmmmm..... the rich tasty goodness of a google-like pagerank for feeds,
combined with crunchy slashdot-style community moderation and distributed
dmoz categorization.....

Seriously, though, this is something I've been hoping someone would build
for quite some time so I won't have to. There are way too many feeds
available to simply provide them all to a user with checkboxes for including
on their page, even in a hierarchical yahoo-type list. And who wants to pay
a bunch of people to act as editors to figure out which feeds are great and
which aren't worth the time?

If I only had an extra 36 hours in every day! :-)

-- 
Gary Teter, Big Dog
Bulldog Beach Interactive http://www.bulldogbeach.com
Programmers: perpetual notion machines.