[syndication] Re: XML-RPC and the Need to Cash In

[Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>]

>BTW, I finally got a demo of AmphetaDesk -- and it's a pretty
>straight clone of the aggregator in Radio. So apparently Morbus likes
>*some* of what we do. ;->

Indeed, I do, Dave. From the history of AmphetaDesk [1]:

"Because of my growing interest in RSS and syndication in general, I had
become a regular reader of Dave Winer's Scripting News. With furtive
murmurs here and there, my lips whispered at night "My Userland on the
Desktop", a product that Winer was soon releasing that sounded like the
greatest little aggragator that could. I couldn't wait to see it.

A month or so later, rechristened Radio Userland on the Desktop (RUOTD), I
got my hands on a beta copy the day it was publically released to the
frothing herds. I shook in my boots: this was good! I focused all my
energies on it... once again, my weekend was spent tweaking, hemming, and
hawing.

A week later, my enthusiam was stronger, but not for RUOTD - rather for the
next stage of syndication evolution. RUOTD was a wonderful piece of work,
but little things here and there were slowly contributing to a nagging
sense of unease. There was something that bugged me about RUOTD - a
collection of "should have"'s and "wished for" that seemed too fickle to be
acted upon. My primary disgust was user friendliness - this was not a piece
of software for my mom, girlfriend, or favorite teddy wearing mistress."

[1] http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/history.htm


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