Re: [syndication] Re: ANN: RSS 'ping' interface at fyuze.com

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

Dear pseudonym, I read your message a couple of days ago about making things
fit into existing interfaces and found myself nodding my head. Yes, that's
why we did toolkits for XML-RPC and SOAP so it would be easy to invent new
interfaces when they're needed. But there's a yin to that yang -- if your
idea catches on, someday someone is going to wonder why there are such
subtle differences betw one approach and another and if they couldn't have
found some way to be compatible. I think when you're finished looking at
this from all the angles, you'll be reimplementing what we implemented over
the last couple of years. Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "jdklub" <pseudonym@mindspring.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 9:20 AM
Subject: [syndication] Re: ANN: RSS 'ping' interface at fyuze.com


> > RSS 0.92 does pub-sub.
> > http://backend.userland.com/rss092#ltcloudgtSubelementOfLtchannelgt
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> It does, but I think the type of interface we are talking about here
> is different. In order for the RSS 0.92 interface to work there has
> to be a live cloud on the other end. In most cases, there isn't. For
> example, Radio blogs, Blogger blogs, and Moveable Type blogs, all
> publish out to a server but cannot be called later by an
> aggregator*. They could, however, on the act of publishing make a
> call, or calls, to aggregators. Those aggregators could then
> register with and notify each other of changes they receive, in a
> two-way fashion. It is generally my understanding that blogs (or
> rather the apps that allow people to blog) can make calls, but are
> not easily called.
>
> * you seem to be working around this on sites hosted at
> radio.weblogs.com by pointing them to radio.xmlstoragesystem.com.
> i'm assuming on publish radio calls xmlstoragesystem to say that
> it's changed, and xmlstoragesytem then makes the calls out to other
> apps/aggregators, as well as fields new requests.
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