Re: Is a Feed the right place for your Data?

Dave Winer <dave-rH/ioLL7x7RWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
>I'm working on a new Scripting News implementation, and thought it would be
>interesting to have each day have its own white-on-orange XML button. Click
>on it and you get the RSS representation for that day.

How do you think these sorts of micro feeds should get displayed and 
consumed?

IMHO, things like this, along with comments feeds for a single post 
don't really work with most of the current aggregators. Adding a new 
feed to an aggregator is usually a comparatively big exercise so most of 
them assume that you might have 50-200 feeds in total. If we think of 
these feeds being automatically found and added (as might happen with 
post-comment feeds) then we have to provide a common mechanism for the 
software to use to do this.

To get back to your specific implementation, I can't imagine I'd 
subscribe to the feed for the "Scripting News on Labor Day 2002 page". 
Presumably it won't change very often, so I wonder why I'd collect it or 
spider it or something, more than once. If it's metadata about the page, 
then just embed it in the Head. If it's an alternate representation, 
then why and for what/who?

Note, these are rhetorical musings rather than demands for answers.

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