Graham wrote:
> priorities would be a really useful thing to have in Atom
There are many useful values that could be associated with either a
feed or an entry. Rather then focusing on one of them I think we would be
best served by created methods to express classes of them in a predictable
way.
For instance:
1. At PubSub, we would like to insert the "PubSub LinkRank" into
items that we publish. This would allow newsreaders to sort entries based on
the LinkRank of their sources.
2. It might be interesting to allow entries or feeds to carry the
current "value" of the feed as listed on the BlogShares.com exchange.
Newsreaders might find this useful for sorting/filtering, etc.
3. I'd like to insert geo-tags of some sort.
4. After doing classification of the content of an entry, we'd like
to insert the results into the entry. i.e. indicate which DMOZ
classification our classifier thinks the entry falls under.
Etc.
Most of these things could be quite nicely handled by a simple
"tag/value" structure. Something like:
<prop name="LinkRank">333</prop>
<prop name="BSValue">$33.03</prop>
<prop name="classification">politics</prop>
<prop name="priority">very_high</prop>
Let's focus on the mechanism for communicating properties rather
then the specific properties that are to be communicated.
bob wyman
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Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:04 PM
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Subject: Priorities in Atom?
I had a random idea the other day that priorities would be a really
useful thing to have in Atom. Now I'm aware of how useless they are in
email, but syndication is much less open to abuse. One of the things
that bugs me about using a newsreader is that all items are the same
size and the same emphasis, yet if you go somewhere like
news.bbc.co.uk, someone's carefully planned out the relative sizes of
each story. This would make newspaper-style view that some readers
offer much more useful, and would also allow sites that present an
overview of all feeds the ability to show the top story for each one
rather than just the latest.
Emphasizing that the priority number is only valid relative to items in
the same feed should stop most abuse. Anyone interested?
Graham
