Re: [syndication] A wacky idea but what the heck

[Julian Bond <julian@netmarketseurope.com>]

In article <0d0e01c0f284$a77f0c20$33a1dc40@murphy>, Dave Winer
<dave@userland.com> writes
>Julian, FYI, I wasn't thinking it would be a subscription list, I was
>thinking it would be an editorial product, like the left-edge links on
>weblogs. Dave

Once you have the pointer, it's up to the RSS generator to decide what
goes in the "related feeds" file, no?

Something like this:-

<rss version="0.92 and a bit">
  <channel>
    <title>My RSS for TopicX</title> 
    ...
    <related_feeds>http://mydomain/backend.php?related=topicx
      </related_feeds>
    ...
    <item>
      ...
  </channel>
</rss>
[1]

Where http://mydomain/backend.php?related=topicx is my dynamically
created OCS list of feeds that I think are related to "My RSS for
TopicX". But I get to decide what "related" means. It might easily be
just the set of subscriptions I have for this topic. If the feed is my
main feed, then it might well be "All my subscriptions".

[1]The rdf version of this is left as an exercise for the student.
<Grin>

BTW. In Userland, are you aggregating the URLs discovered in 0.92
<source> elements? Or just using them for display?

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