Re: Aggregating and displaying feeds

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> 
> Where I'm going with this is of course, "The Daily Me". I'm curious 
to
> know just how close we can get to this, using the data that's 
available
> right now and without introducing new elements in the standards or a
> huge push to get people to produce richer feeds. 

Indeed, it seems two feeds are desired.  One for just the headlines 
(RSS) and one with the actual content.  I prefer the different feeds 
as I generally don't most of the articles in the feeds.  If I'm in a 
bandwidth-deprived situation this is very important.  However, it 
would be helpful if the actual content feed ALSO included the same 
data as the headline only feed.  This way I could grab the full-feed 
and extract the headlines.

Two feeds at the infrastructure level.  One "interface" at the client 
level.  Combine the two as far as the user is concerned.

The client should, by default, only grab the headlines.  A given 
channel, if it provides richer content, should be selectable for 
greater content.  That way if I find an overall channel to 
be "download worthy" then I should be able to set this.  AvantGo is 
sort of like this.

Now, extrapolate that into categories and you're onto something.  
Giving the client the ability to download more content based on 
categories, ratings or other rule sets would be terrific.

-Bill Kearney