Feed me weird things
So I wrote full-text display of articles into the Cornucopt RSS feed after reading this… but before I read the comments. So now I’m wondering why wikis don’t implement a URL blacklisting approach. I’ve been planning to write such a thing for Corny for a while, to support the weblogging functionality, but now I think I might move it up in the schedule.
I’m also thinking about how else we can make effective use of RSS (yes, and Atom) in CoCo, in ways that are at least a little bit generalizable. Subscribing to a page is a no-brainer, but can we integrate page changes with page comments in a way that makes sense on the technical end - that is, a way that allows for arbitrary extensions to basic page-y stuff?
It might be time to stop thinking of feeds as a check-box add-on feature and consider what we’d do with them if they were our main way of delivering content - which they might soon be.
January 8th, 2005