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Re: Saturday, June 12, 2004
"Now think about the relationships supported by what RSS provides: notification, subscription, syndication." I might say this as (less eloquent, of course): since RSS/Atom type files hold logs of events, and since these files are published such that they can be polled, people can use RSS/Atom + RSS/Atom readers to poll each other's logs. The reason why I would say this is that I think terms like notification, subscription, and syndication don't literally apply to RSS/Atom, but are more figurative. With RSS/Atom: there are ways to do some kinds of notification, there is something kind-of like a subscription, and some of the less common uses (i.e., for the average RSS/Atom feed reader user) include a kind-of syndication. What seems most different from email is that RSS/Atom is limited to polling--so it can make more (than email) of the types of interactions ("relationships") that thrive when that limit is present. There are responses to this message:
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