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Aggregation post processing.
[ Posted by Dan on February 05, 2003 | 3 Comments ]

Does this solution solve this problem? Probably not, but it's fun to think of the possibilities surrounding NetNewsWire and the platform it's built on, OSX. It certainly seems that RSS 2.0, and insertion of comment elements will create a different (better?) way of surfing the blogosphere.

At times like this, I really wish I was a good Perl coder and AppleScript guru.

IMHO the starting point for solving this kind of problem lies in the semantics used, and although it may be possible to dangle stuff onto RSS 2.0 comments, I think it really needs something a bit better defined. Using an RDF vocabulary like IBIS -
http://purl.org/ibis
could facilitate the joining up of conversations - my post in reply to your post will contain an statement saying that it is. If it was on a different server, presumably it would also send a trackback ping, to make itself known. Then all that is necessary is for the newsreader to filter according to the thread, and bingo! a conversation.

-Posted by Danny on February 6, 2003 04:01 AM

Well, you could just roll your comments into your RSS feed... (and ask everyone you read to do the same). This guy has already done it with his feed:
http://www.inluminent.com/weblog/
and this friend provides individual RSS feeds of her comments:
http://alevin.com/weblog/

-Posted by Adam Rice on February 9, 2003 07:05 PM

I was thinking of doing that because the comment element is really supposed to be a link to the comments page, which, as far as this site is concerned, is the same page as the article/post.

-Posted by Dan on February 9, 2003 07:41 PM

Comment posting has been turned off because I don't have enough time and will to deal with the constant comment spamming. I'm very sorry and will fix this sometime soon (soon = before 2004 ends).