Matt is
working
on something that has been bugging me for a while and I have been
calling RSS archives. What I think that it's missing in today's
weblogging infrastructure is a way to point to the xml version of an
item, basically having a URI for an RSS item similar to what a
permalink is to the html version of every post.
It's important to consider that our RSS feeds contain only the last 20
or 25 posts, currently there is not an RSS (or anyway XML) version of
everything contained in our sites.
Creating an xml version of a post is relatively easy, it can be an RSS
document containing only one post. The challange is matching this
version of the post with the html one.
My original idea was embedding some code in the html page, just like
it's done today with rdf code needed for trackback, the code should
allow to turn an html permalink to a RSS permalink. Matt's approach is
an opml index file, which is quite interesting.
Now I'm wondering if anyone else would be interested in the development
of this idea. I guess that RSS developers should find this concept
quite useful.
Dave Winer: Ten years ago today I sent an email to the software industry, about a product that Marc Canter was rolling out. That was followed by a series of emails, many hundred of them. Most written by me, but some written in response. In 1997, the email flow spawned what I called a news site which eventually became known as a weblog, and then shortened to blog. That first email, as sloppy and weird as it was, pointed in the direction of free publishing for the people. If I could do it, so could you. In hindsight, it seems so obvious, but nothing really is until it exists. It was a bootstrap then, even more raw that the podcasts of today. But it led to many coooool things, and hopefully many more! Thanks to everyone for the support and encouragement, and most important, thanks for doing your own blogs, that was always the goal, Billions of Websites, a chain of cooperation, working together in cyberspace, exploring with our minds and bodies. Here's a toast to another decade of fun, risks and learning. Namaste y'all! [Scripting News]
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