Feed Splicing
I'm not sure how useful this would really be in practice, but here's an article that examines "feed splicing": combining multiple RSS feeds in interesting ways to create a new feed.
It's certainly a valid operation, but I'm wondering (and maybe you can help me out) what value consumers and/or publishers would derive from these capabilities. Would you like to be able to define these "spliced" feeds that can be represented by some globally accessible unique URL, or would you just prefer to see those filtering capabilities in your feed reader or aggregator?
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as a consumer i'd like to do things like have an aggregated burning door feed instead of four separate ones - or create my own feed from like feeds to reduce the number of feeds i have to read. as a publisher, i could see wanting to do things like "the combined feed of our top 5 publishers" or something.
there are a few communities i've seen that have done this, and i usually like subscribing to the aggregated feed of 3 or 4 authors rather than rading the separate feed for each author.
Posted by: Steve | January 1, 2004 10:19 PM