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RSS readers should serve, not just client, says I

posted: Mar 8, 2004 5:40:03 PM

In the recent past, which I mostly missed while in LA, danah boyd posted her thoughts on what i want in an RSS tool (also via Marc's Voice via Scobleizer). The features that danah enumerates match much of what I envision possible in the iCite net.

I recently have been thinking of describing the iCite net in a way that builds on the concepts of RSS-feed architecture, but is different in suggesting that RSS-type reading is a form of publication, itself producing new or transformed (micro) content on the web. The RSS architecture is un-web (specifically, client-server) in the ways which RSS readers are not also publishers on the web.

Ideally, one's personal RSS-type readers would be (fundamentally) servers on the web, publishing their aggregation (e.g., summarization, etc.) back out (i.e., also as new RSS-type feeds). What one would read then would be essentially a dynamic network of feeds that, along with other interesting things, can organize redundancy to provide both much more fully collapsed (aggregate) and much more fully exploded (multi-faceted) context-views of information (and, also, as a social network, the people / groups related by information).

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Comment by: sarah gilbert · http://www.cafemama.com
posted: Mar 9, 2004 2:24:34 PM

Well, that's what Jyte is: all our data (RSS feeds, Atom feeds, our proprietary scraped feeds from major news sites) is kept on our redundant servers. You create the "searches" based on the articles you want to read. All your searches, feeds and preferences are stored on the servers (as well as on your machine) so, if you save an article at a public computer, it will be in your saved articles when you get home.

You can see more info at my blog, http://www.cafemama.com

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posted: Mar 12, 2004 12:26:18 AM
title: RSS reading: between web push and email pull

The other aspect of RSS-type feeds that are like email is that RSS reading is essentially out-of-band with the web, at least in the two way sense. What you read in your RSS-type feed reader can link to the web, but the web can't link to it

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posted: Jan 17, 2005 8:54:36 PM
title: Aggregation piracy and playlist artistry

I've often considered, through my writing on this blog, what I call "blogging beyond blogs", or "blogging without blogs", and I long-ago noted the role I see for aggregators in my post, RSS *readers* should serve, not just client, says I.

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