RSS all the things!

This repository is just a place for very early brainstorming about

  1. developing extensions to RSS for a variety of network-scale applications that could be constituted from RSS — in the way that, for example, podcasts are, as the base, first-class component of the application, rather than as metadata describing siloed websites.

  2. specifying a standard sort of dynamic HTTP service that could host and modify components of such applications, compatibly with other static and existing deployments of RSS.

This proposal hopes to build on the work and ideas of Dave Winer, including RSS itself, and ideas like feed-only blogs, textcasting, and artcasting.

Nothing in this repository is stable.

For now it includes:

This project is a collaboration of

  • Ramona Waldman
  • Steve Waldman