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April 28, 2003
RSS aggregators
As a relatively recent RSS fan, I found this entry by Dave Winer somewhat curious: Aggregators should not organize news by where items came from, just present the news in reverse chronologic order. (Emphasis his; picture here.) I use AmphetaDesk simply to make it easy to see when weblogs have been updated; I do all my reading on the weblog itself. This way I get the benefit of both worlds...the nice layout and design that most weblog owners work on with the efficiency of only going when there's new stuff. Because of that, frankly it doesn't matter to me whether or not the feed is in chronological order or not; I'm simply scrolling thru the list to see what's new since the last time I checked news. I can see why showing this by time might be useful (get the freshest stuff first?), but maybe I'm weird...I'm just using aggregators to be the equivalent of the defunct SpyOnIt (or the variants). BTW, if you're wondering what all the fuss about RSS is about, check out this article, which provides a pretty good consumer viewpoint and link to the best free readers. There may be better resources out there (feel free to add them via a comment!), but searching for RSS leads to far more resources for creating RSS files than reading 'em!
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This discussion presumes that all content syndicated via RSS is news type in nature, where chronology is th emajor organizer. It is true now because most of the content RSS-ed are news and blogs. Let's say a college catalog was available as an RSS feed, you do not want to see the 10 newest classes, but perhaps define a channel for just the biology department. Or perhaps a clip art media site- you could tap into feeds for specific categories, or maybe a randomized feed? It's more than news and blogs about cats. -- Posted by on May 2, 2003 12:10 AM
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