Re: syndication and general communication with others out there...

["Mark Kraft" <insomnia@wco.com>]

Yeah... better to add the support now than later.

Besides, what really matters is who has the content. We need to beef up our
site content and encourage indie artist types like musicians and comic strip
artists, because the idea is to attract visitors to the site... which
syndication should do nicely. If we target comic strips and musicians, that
would be a good niche for us...

Given the number of readers we have, we could literally have our favorite
xml/rpc sites find their way up near the tops of the charts in very, very
short order. That means a lot of readership for any comics we carry, for
instance.

Being able to offer artists and musicians painless syndication across the
Internet would be a cool, cool thing... and no other site could offer the
degree of support and assistance we could anytime soon.

m.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Fitzpatrick" <bradfitz@bradfitz.com>
To: "Mark Kraft" <insomnia@wco.com>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 2:47 AM
Subject: Re: syndication and general communication with others out there...


> xml/rpc is cool.
>
> i actually talked about adding support awhile ago on lj_dev --- not hard
at
> all.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Kraft" <insomnia@wco.com>
> To: "Brad Fitzpatrick" <bradfitz@bradfitz.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 2:39 AM
> Subject: syndication and general communication with others out there...
>
>
> > The big move towards syndication is definitely ramping up, and it looks
> like
> > standards are being set by... guess who? Microsoft.
> > Case in point: http://radio.userland.com/ . The software allows a user
to
> > "tune" into blogs using the same features Microsoft is using as the
basis
> of
> > its .NET initiative; it also features a simple blog tool for posting
> > entries. An interview about this is at
> > http://www.webreference.com/interviews/winer/ .
> >
> > It looks like the standard that both Microsoft and Userland are going to
> use
> > is XML/RPC.  a derivative of XML. ( see http://www.xmlrpc.com/ )
There's
> a
> > good article on it at http://www.webtools.com/story/TLS20010206S0004 ...
> > basically, once everyone else does it, we'll have to do it, or risk
people
> > jumping ship to get more attention and wider exposure for their weblog
> > elsewhere. Already, the content is there. See
> > http://www.ourfavoritesongs.com/ ...
> >
> > Also, Zeldman's site apparently added WAP support last week with no real
> > effort whatsoever, using this : http://www.webcorelabs.com/i_wap.html
...
> > it's free. Might be worth looking into.
> >
> >
> > What are your thoughts on all this? Hard to think of Microsoft
cooperating
> > with anyone to develop standards to make anything work without having a
> plan
> > to take over the business later. Makes me wonder just how long it will
be
> > before Microsoft bundles a syndicated weblog in every browser.
Phhhhpbt...
> > m.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>