Lots of brain straining today. I've been thinking about rss alot lately. Last night it dawned on me that the space I want to operate in is the aggregation side of rss. Not that I'm looking to develop yet another aggregator, plenty of smart folks working on that already. I feel that there is a lot of unexplored territory when it comes to the rendering, or playout systems that rss feeds into. Surely grabbing xml from rss feeds and redering them into one or three pane aggregators can't be the final stop. All the aggregators I've tried out have unique qualities and features, most lack the ones I yearn for most, like delayed downloads of enclosures and display controls (filtering, prioritizing).
Azureus is a BitTorrent client that solves the rss enclosure of torrent files from the other direction. It offers a plugin that will periodically scan rss feeds with bittorrent enclosures and auto download the big media files. You can set filters with regular expressions and configure all sorts of bandwidth options. Pretty nice. Try it out with my Torrent Feed
