Re: [syndication] Re: RSS feed filtered by keywords?

["Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@ideaspace.net>]

> FWIW (in agreement), unless something fundamentally changes in the
> interim, when we have to deal with scaling to 200M or 200G feeds the
> bottleneck will not be storage or processor power, it will be bandwidth.
> As long as our storage and processing capacity in this realm continues
> to far exceed that needed to deal with the data coming down our pipes
> arguments against scalability are mostly noise.

Indeed, and then, more than ever, it'll be useful to use alternative 'focusing
and pivoting' mechanisms to help lead you to the items of relevance.

It's not so much a matter of having ALL the metadata applied to items. It's more
a matter of having enough metadata applied in the right places.  Places that
sort of seem stupid or redundant until they're recognized.  A rock in the middle
of a stream seems pointless until you need to cross it.

Consider that a feed can contain topics, or keywords for that matter.  Then
consider the site/author could post a transcoding document that indicated what
they "mean" by that info (using XTM or XFML perhaps).  When you start
overlapping the sets of items, users, topics, keywords, you start building a
much more robust visualization of what's "revelvant" to the interest at hand.
Plain filters on the RSS alone would stunt the discovery process.

The various pieces for this stuff are available.  It's getting people to USE
them, that's the trick.

-Bill Kearney