RSS is simply the standard that has taken precendence for delivery of microcontent, i.e. blog entries/news, and now podcasts/media/video. For video this provides much needed contextual metadata that is otherwise not present or very hard to access because its embedded inside the files (which are large) and cannot be easily queried or requested without access to the whole file. This metadata is a beginning foundation for something much larger than video-on-demand services, but also filtering, search, linking, discovery, and much more.
Open standards like this push the web forward... sure RSS and the interfaces for consuming it could be better. All it is is an XML format for encapsulation of data. What you do with it from that point is completely open and it will transform the way we interact with media and content in profound ways that are only now emerging and many that have yet to be explored.
-Josh
On 2/16/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A few articles I have read this week suggest so. well, not entirely, but you'll understand the context one you read. This goes towards the battle of the web and the breaking apart of content and context.
http://squeetblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.alwaysbeta.com/2006/02/03/rss-is-90-awful/
http://www.alwaysbeta.com/2006/02/15/fine-you-win-rss-sucks/
What do you think? How does/can this apply to videoblogging?
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