Re: [syndication] "Narrowcasting" RSS

["Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>]

Agreed on all points. This is different, however; it's not categorizing
the feed, it's making the feed a first-class citizen, alongside the
"normal" content.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [syndication] "Narrowcasting" RSS


> > On a related note, one of the things that I'd like to see is RSS to be
> > offered as a more dynamic, customizable feed in other contexts as
well.
> > For example. Slashdot allows users to customise what categories they
see,
> > but the RSS feed is just a firehose of whatever's published. RSS is
just
> > another format that's more machine-digestable than HTML; when the
content
> > is list-based, it should be available in both representations.
>
> Search for Rael's work on Meerkat and it's parameter setups.  This is
well
> plowed soil here.
>
> I'm in favor of parameterized RSS URLs being used to focus the content.
I'll
> offer the opinion that attempting to use it as a means to "filter out"
something
> will undoubtedly end up losing something you'd rather not miss.  The
> ability/reliability of people applying effective metadata (like
categorization)
> on items is still a very problematic area.  Fundamentally people don't
generally
> see the value to expending the effort.  Everyone wants categories but
nobody can
> decide which are truly relevant.  Even less are willing to expend the
trivial
> amount of energy to click even single checkboxes that would help others
get a
> grip on the content.  Of course, synthetic metadata is often worse...
>
> -Bill Kearney
>
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