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Undertoad · 09-23-2003, 06:49 PM

It's really only for IotD and Sycamoreland "blog view".

It's a way for headlines and information to be shared quickly by the site, without people having to actually browse the site to see if there are updates and such.

Alphabet soup simplified and run through the UT filter of mangled misunderstanding! HTML is how people write web sites that other people can browse. XML is, sort of, a way for systems to write web sites that other systems can browse. RSS is an XML version of a regularly-updated website, with just the headlines and stuff in a format that everyone agrees on.

So if I make the blog views generate XML RSS, other people's systems can kinda sorta "subscribe" to them.

Tob is looking at RSS aggregators which read the RSS versions of sites and try to present you with the information you want... I looked at one of them for about 15 minutes, and found that I preferred reading all the sites by hand instead.

But it seems that other people are coming up with new and better ways to use all this information, and eventually it may actually replace browsing for some uses.

Auggh, it's so hard to keep up well in many different areas of technology... hard to know what's important to keep up with.

09-23-2003, 06:49 PM	#12
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	It's really only for IotD and Sycamoreland "blog view". It's a way for headlines and information to be shared quickly by the site, without people having to actually browse the site to see if there are updates and such. Alphabet soup simplified and run through the UT filter of mangled misunderstanding! HTML is how people write web sites that other people can browse. XML is, sort of, a way for systems to write web sites that other systems can browse. RSS is an XML version of a regularly-updated website, with just the headlines and stuff in a format that everyone agrees on. So if I make the blog views generate XML RSS, other people's systems can kinda sorta "subscribe" to them. Tob is looking at RSS aggregators which read the RSS versions of sites and try to present you with the information you want... I looked at one of them for about 15 minutes, and found that I preferred reading all the sites by hand instead. But it seems that other people are coming up with new and better ways to use all this information, and eventually it may actually replace browsing for some uses. Auggh, it's so hard to keep up well in many different areas of technology... hard to know what's important to keep up with.