How could I miss Alf? My sincere appologies! (after all his blam! and blaxm tools are top notch and standards based taboot)
"And Nick forgot to quote Alf Eaton as well on this Juicey issue. [nick gaydos > thynk]
I just wonder why we haven't gotten a definitive answer from the RSS 2.0 camp on how they'd do Calendar Events. They certainly like to talk about enclosures - which have no meta-data associated with them, but what about something really obvious and SIMPLE like Events? Maybe if we had a former television star asking for it - we'd get it.
BTW in typical nerdy fashion, Alf has already gone off and done some experiments with iCal and.....
And Scoble thinks we can do the whole thing - and THEN SOME - with the new Longhorn file system - WinFS."
[via Marc's Voice]
Here is something to ponder:
Alf has his .ics file which works in both a mac iCal calendar as well as in Outlook on the PC on his webserver linked through a post. This post gets distributed through RSS which allows my aggregator to link to the file.
"Export an event from a web page to iCal
Finally got it sorted - it was easy really. Download this file and double-click it - the item within (a TV show for 2003-09-25, 18:00-20:00 GMT+1) will be added to your iCal calendar.
This can be used not just for exporting TV shows from listings sites, but also concerts, sporting events, birthdays or any other kind of single event that doesn't need a subscribable calendar.
Here's the contents of the file:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:South Park Episode 374: Cartman Has A Fat Ass
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20030926T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20030926T200000
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR"
Thought #1:
Alf has shown that this works well as a file on the server.
Is there a reason not to distribute the file through enclosures?
It certainly might get Dave and Joi to pay more attention to this. We already know enclosures work well for distributing large multimedia files full of binary data. Dave - what else are enclosures good for?
Thought #2:
I'd prefer not to re-stoke the RSS fires and flames, but we'd all love to make this easy to do.
Is there a reason to put the event information in the metadata of the post itself?
Files are easy, agreeing on the metadata standards is difficult.
Thought #3:
We have spent a fair amount of time talking about how to transmit the information through syndication, but an interface to create events and retrieve them needs to be usable. We build this into the weblog tools of tomorrow.
6:56:58 PM 
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