Tuesday, February 25, 2003

RSS with rich media? says Tim Lutero: "RSS cannot replace personal weblogs... For personal and media intensive weblogs, I will never be satisfied with a big chunk of posts pushed through an aggregator." [evhead] Don't be so sure. Imagine subscribing to the QuickTime Movie Previews RSS feed, and being able to see any movie preview instantly. Why Instantly, because the movie data would download in the background, and the entry would only show up when the download is complete. Downloads could happen all night long at slow/low rates, and could automatically be cleared out when entries expire. 3:12:06 PM

CVS2RSS This is, of course, what RSS was invented for: Kellan's CVS 2 RSS - it generates an RSS feed of CVS checkins. This feed, for example, is the CVS to the famous Perl module XML::RSS. It works especially well at Sourceforge, they tell me. [Ben Hammersley.com] This is exactly what RSS should be doing... taking interesting content and feeding it to me in other than email! I'd love to get an RSS feed from Perforce. 3:08:45 PM