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  Friday, May 10, 2002 

A little test:

1. <p>

2. &lt;p&gt;

3. &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;

4. &amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;

As seen in the aggregator:

 

Sam writes:

I'm intrigued.  I tried to subscribe to DJ's RSS feed, and got the following:
Can't subscribe to the channel. The most likely cure is to check the URL in a web browser and see if you can get it to read the feed. The following message probably won't help you figure out what went wrong, but we include it here because it might. "Can't get the address of "description" because the table doesn't have an object with that name."
What's up with that? [Sam Ruby]

I ran into the same. The channel-level description is missing, which makes Radio's aggregator barf. Of course, now that we're rolling up our sleeves and preparing to dig into the aggregator, I guess we can convince it to be more lenient :-)

Meanwhile, I'll mention this to DJ.

 

Daylight ahead for RSS writers and readers

Jenny writes:

What I do see as the bigger issue is that this provides a path for further news aggregator development in Radio. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know what it means for RSS news aggregation in general, but I believe quite strongly that some form of aggregation will become part of our everyday information lives in the future, so I welcome any and all roads that lead to that day. [The Shifted Librarian]

I believe the same. It's important  to note that Radio's aggregator is one way forward, but not the only way. I just grabbed a copy of AmphetaDesk and -- omigosh -- it's written in Perl! I had no idea! It ships as a compiled executable for Windows, Mac, and Linux, but the source is all Perl and is available. The app runs Radio-style, shoveling script-written pages into a local webserver for browser consumption.

This presents a bit of a dilemma for me. I've made my peace with UserTalk, but I'm much faster and more competent in Perl. So it's tempting to do aggregator experimentation in AmphetaDesk. But then, it can't be so easily shared with the Radio community, many of whom will (rightly) prefer not to download and install an extra kit. But, this is a good problem to have: a choice between two viable options.

In any case, the point is that you're right, Jenny. All sorts of different groups will have reasons to tweak both the production and the consumption of RSS. For both writers and readers of RSS, there's daylight ahead.

 


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