conversation without the web
everybuddy has linked to one of my posts on RSS content without the platform.
That is information via feeds, but the information doesn’t have a place on the web…there is only the RSS version of the content.
So if it’s not available on the open web to read at a URL address, you need to be able to read it by subscribing to it, and reading it with your own client…the only thing is where do you find it to subscribe to it, if there is no web…you have to rely on people sending you the details.
Is this true RSS conversations.
I love the quote:
“The web will disintermediate itself.”
I didn’t really think about this concept till now.
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“So if it’s not available on the open web to read at a URL address, you need to be able to read it by subscribing to it, and reading it with your own client…the only thing is where do you find it to subscribe to it, if there is no web…you have to rely on people sending you the details.”
I think this is really where Feed Grazing can come to the rescue John. Imagine Raw Sugar clustering feeds into browseable tag hiearchies so that we can start navigating at their top (OPML) level and then browse through to a specific feed. Of course this is for aggregate tag feeds, not actual blog feeds but I think aggregate feeds is where the real value is going to be in the long term.
Comment by James Corbett — March 15, 2006 @ 4:15 pm
The middleman won’t go away
Via Findory’s personalized page, I came across this, which led me to this, which then led me to this…
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