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Re: Who's got RSS feeds of your creations?
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lugnet.mediawatch
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Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:00:42 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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In lugnet.build, Joe Strout wrote:
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I’d like to try writing an RSS aggregator specifically for pictures of LEGO
creations (and related stuff, like shows). ...
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Late last year, I started a project that kind of addressed this (sorta) but
let it drift. With recent events I’ve been seriously considering dusting it
back off, and think it’s time to actively solicit more feedback.
http://news.lugnet.com/publish/?n=4628
LENNI is the LEGO
Enthusiast News Network Initiative that adds LEGO-specific flags into the
RSS and Atom specifications. It’s still in the proposal and feedback stage,
although I’ve let it languish. A very rough and incomplete description is
available at the web site here.
Does this sound like what you’re thinking?
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Yes, it’s certainly similar to what I had in mind, though broader in scope --
I’m mostly interested in coming up with a better way of finding pictures (what
today you might use Brickshelf for, though in so doing you might miss out on a
lot of neat stuff that’s hosted elsewhere).
However, I know that RSS has a thumbnail tag. Probably Atom does too (though
I’m not sure; I’m pretty new to syndication). So, an image-oriented aggregator
could just present items for which it can find a thumbnail, and skip the others.
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And if so, would you be interested in writing code that follows this spec?
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Sure. We’ll have a bit of a bootstrapping problem, though: there’s no use for
an aggregator that expects this spec if there are no feeds providing it, and
there’s no use in someone providing a feed of it if there are no aggregators
that read it.
So, one question I have is, are there any existing aggregators that could make
any sense of these extra tags? If there are already products that will let us
filter by, say, the lenni:interest tag, then we can start immediately by
getting someone to provide content in the LENNI format. A custom aggregator
wouldn’t be necessary, though it might be nice.
But if existing aggregators can’t do that (which seems unlikely, but what do I
know?), then maybe we should start by writing a custom one, based on sample
data, and then try to convince content providers to adopt the format.
Best,
Joe
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| (...) Late last year, I started a project that kind of addressed this (sorta) but let it drift. With recent events I've been seriously considering dusting it back off, and think it's time to actively solicit more feedback. (URL) LENNI is the (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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