this is a test of onelinst. -- Mark Nottingham, Melbourne Australia mnot@... http://www.mnot.net/...
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Mark Nottingham
mnot@xxxxx.xxxx
Jul 2, 1999 4:21 pm
[ There are now 16 people on this list, with a very good representation of the people who should be here. I'll put a modified version of this in the welcome...
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Mark Kennedy
MarkK@xxxx.xxxx
Jul 2, 1999 4:53 pm
Hey, all! First of all, let me say "thanks" to Mark for getting this list started. I feel this will be a great resource that will hopefully lead to something...
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Matt Hamer
matt.hamer@xxxxxxxxxx...
Jul 2, 1999 5:12 pm
I'd like to introduce myself and let you know what brought me to this list and how I think I can contribute. I'm Director of Research at Innovision...
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Dave Winer
dave@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 2, 1999 5:31 pm
My name is Dave Winer, I run UserLand Software, and we do My.UserLand.Com, which is a public content aggregator for RSS and <scriptingNews> format. We are also...
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james@...
james@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 2, 1999 6:48 pm
Dear Mark and all on the list, Many thanks for the welcome. My name is James, and I run what I believe is the first directory of XML content and interfaces...
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Ian Davis
id@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 2, 1999 7:35 pm
Hello all, My name is Ian Davis and I run the Internet Alchemy weblog. I run a script called RSS Maker that crawls selected web sites and generates RSS files...
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Carmen
chv@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 3, 1999 1:18 am
Hello, I am Carmen. I got interested in syndication so that I could read more web sites without spending all day clicking around. Working with my husband (who...
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james@...
james@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 3, 1999 11:15 am
Dear Carmen and all ... James is not coming up with a competing standard. I'll publish the contents of xmlTree in whatever format the group decides to...
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james@...
james@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 3, 1999 11:16 am
Dear Carmen and all ... James is not coming up with a competing standard. I'll publish the contents of xmlTree in whatever format the group decides to...
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Dave Winer
dave@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 3, 1999 2:43 pm
Carmen, I'm having the same problem with the Choose Your News page. How do you wade thru all the channels? My current idea is that you sort them based on...
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james@...
james@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 3, 1999 3:12 pm
Dave ... I agree completely here. The providers understand better than any machine how their content should be categorised. Likewise, the grouping should be...
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Dave Winer
dave@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 3, 1999 3:20 pm
... than one category. I think that should be up to the editor too. The format should allow for a list of categories. Also, I thought the Motley Fool's...
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Niel M. Bornstein
nbornstein@xxx.xxxx
Jul 3, 1999 4:09 pm
... Sounds like keywords to me. Niel (Introduction coming soon)...
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james@...
james@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 3, 1999 4:21 pm
Niel ... IMHO, categories are not like keywords because : 1) categories imply a structured hierarchy (in the sense that I am using the word), and suggest a way...
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Mark Nottingham
mnot@xxxxx.xxxx
Jul 4, 1999 12:37 am
So the actual categories that the publisher can choose from, how does that get decided? I don't think it's a good idea to allow channel publishers to create...
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Carmen
chv@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 4, 1999 4:08 am
Wow, I am honored. All these messages with my name in the Subject! Surely we are not the first ones to try and solve this problem. I'd like to hear more about...
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james@...
james@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 5, 1999 8:00 am
Dear Mark and Carmen and Dave (and whoever else is interested in classification), ... The centrally-managed list is not impractical if it already exists and is...
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Mark Nottingham
mnot@xxxxx.xxxx
Jul 5, 1999 8:36 am
( this is a bit of elementary stuff that would be good to cover early on ) As a starting point, is there any comment on the basic structure of: <formatname> ...
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Ian Davis
id@...
Jul 5, 1999 8:20 pm
... Ugh! These are a complete mess because of all the politics, infighting and general ill-will amongst usenet members. ... This group gives the greatest...
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Ian Davis
id@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 5, 1999 8:28 pm
... Correct. OCS is currently at version 0.3 and lets you define multiple channels for a site, with each channel having multiple formats. The spec is at...
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james@...
james@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 6, 1999 7:47 am
Thanks, Ian, for the work that you have put in on OCS. I am, though, a little unclear on the objectives of the group. Is it : a) to define a channel metadata...
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Ian Davis
id@...
Jul 6, 1999 7:53 pm
... I'd like to see a and b, and I think they are separate but the syndication format probably needs some additional metadata such as date published, and...
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danda@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxx...
danda@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxx...
Jul 6, 1999 9:29 pm
... language is there - per channel, not item. no date stuff yet. no attribution stuff. The latter two are really just laziness and time constraints, not...
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Ian Davis
id@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 6, 1999 9:53 pm
Hi Dan, ... The optional content would be an element that would allow the provider to add a paragraph or so of text including some limited HTML markup such as...
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Carmen
chv@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 7, 1999 4:12 am
My notes below... James> a) to define a channel metadata format (when the channel is updated, James> who the editor is James> etc.), or James> b) to define the...
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james@...
james@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 7, 1999 7:26 am
Carmen ... Yeah, ugly. This is where categorisation comes into play. I thought about this some time ago when deciding how to open the contents of xmlTree on...
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Carmen
chv@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 7, 1999 2:26 pm
Version 0.8.5 of Carmen's Headline Viewer (for Windows) is now available for download at http://www.vertexdev.com/HeadlineViewer This program reads XML and...
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Paul Nakada
pnakada@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 7, 1999 2:34 pm
For anyone interested in a prototype web log viewer, check it out at http://myhome.mystuff.net/myweblog.cgi basically, a cross between a headline viewer and a...
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id
id@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 10, 1999 12:51 am
This might be of interest to those working on categorisation of channels: This is a forwarded message From: Mike Jackson <m.s.jackson@...> To:...
