Re: [syndication] Re: My take on shared feed lists

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

Mark and Sam, the two applications are not related. Yahoo wants a way to
present massive numbers of different feeds. Sam is interested in presenting
different flavors of the same feed. Maybe there's a need for the latter, I
don't know. Personally I find it's usually far more information than I want,
and I don't bother subscribing at all. I do subscribe to Zawodny though.
Must've been before he offered all those choices.

BTW, to Mark Fletcher --> Kearney is talking about Mark Nottingham, the
person who started this list a long time ago.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Fletcher" <markf@wingedpig.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Re: My take on shared feed lists


> Sam Ruby wrote:
>
> ><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS"
> >href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/index.rdf";>
> >
> >On that page is lots of orange XML buttons.  Three of which actually are
> >related to Jeremy's site.  All three are valid RSS.  One of which
> >contains full posts, the others merely contain summaries.
> >
> >It would be nice if a person who knows nothing about directory or feed
> >formats could be presented with the option to chose between full format
> >and summary when they say they want to subscribe to a site.  This would
> >go something like this:
> >
> >
> >
> We already do this. Many people already include multiple <link> tags
> specifying different versions of their feeds. Between that and standard
> auto-discovery techniques, we're generally able to find all the RSS
> files for a given blog.
>
> I guess the proposal under discussion is just a different way of
> presenting that data, or for dealing with it at one level up, on a
> per-site basis, instead of a per-blog basis.
>
>
> Mark
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