Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Sam wants you to subscribe... as in publish/subscribe Would you? Could you? Dare: suppose the message exchange pattern is this: people who are registered can subscribe to my blog and I will POST updates via HTTP to the location of their choice? They can treat this as a ping.  They can aggregate it.  They can route it to their in box. They can archive it. They can validate it. Or perhaps I should also support SMTP.  That's easy to do. As you point out, I should probably also accept datagrams using the same format and interpret them as pingbacks or trackbacks or comments or... This is what Sam was up to in his Membership has its privileges post: he meant subscribe as in publish/subscribe, which would be a nice way to solve the Traffic Problem associated with RSS readers today as explained by Tim Bray in Where Next for RSS? I like the idea, and have no religion yet about the RDF debate that happens in his comment page. 3:43:32 PM    comment []