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

[dave.cantrell@gunter.af.mil]

Oh come on guys, this is the "XML syndication" list, where we all get
together and discuss the *technical* aspects (primarily anyway) behind
syndicating content and news via XML.

Ergo, 99% of the readers will be technical enough to (a) know what a "blog"
is and (b) be able to use a mouse click on the blue underlined text thingy
in their e-mail...

Unless you can't see blue underlined clickable text because you aren't using
Microsoft's e-mail, in which case you are automatically disqualified from
"non-geek" status... :)

-dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Nottingham [mailto:mnot@mnot.net]
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 1:44 PM
To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [syndication] XML-RPC and the Need to Cash In



On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 08:03:08AM +0100, Julian Bond wrote:
> In article <20010824175609.B2251@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham
> <mnot@mnot.net> writes
> >Perhaps it would be good to splinter a bit; to have a group that
> >focuses on evangelising and making it simple, and another that lives
> >on the cutting edge.
> 
> Don't break up the group and splinter it. Both groups will die.
> 
> Get a better mail reader that can thread the conversations. This list is
> not exactly high volume so it shouldn't be hard to track multiple
> conversations on it and hit the "read" or "delete" button as
> appropriate.


Heh. I can't help but think you illustrate Morbus' point perfectly;
you want people to use the technology proactively to solve their
problems; many are not comfortable with doing this, so the pool of
people available to contribute is diminished. 

I had the same thought, on a smaller scale, when you posted a
one-sentence response to a message by giving a URI and calling it a
blog, incurring a cost to the readers (both in effort and in knowing
what a 'blog' is - a term that is often more descriptive of the
publisher-side model than the reader experience), rather than just
typing or pasting it into an e-mail message.

Technology does provide some excellent tools for solving
communication-oriented social problems. However, it's not the end;
only a means. In this case, we have a social problem of trying to get
wide adoption of syndication. There have been peeks from some people
who are interested in doing that, but efforts lose momentum fast; it
could be that there just isn't enough in the way of resources to do
this (a pity), but I can't help but wonder if the issues raised here
have some impact as well.

Cheers,


P.S. Mutt is just fine for me, thanks ;)


-- 
Mark Nottingham
http://www.mnot.net/
 

 

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