BTW, the bandwidth question is kind of silly... you'd use up more bandwidth if those people were viewing your website with all the images and style formatting and so forth.
Back to my point about data though... RSS just happens to be the de facto standard and the one with the widest support. That's not to say there's any problem with other formats like Atom or even the proposed microformats for blog entries (see Andres's meta-profile for blogs as an early example). Yet still, RSS has the widest adoption and support... especially in terms of podcasting since Blogger doesn't even support Atom 1.0 yet (which does have a rel="enclosure" element that no one uses). -josh On 2/16/06, Joshua Kinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a lot of uses for RSS beyond aggregation and "aggregators." > > 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? > > > > > > > > - - - - > > Sull > > http://vlogdir.com > > > > > > > > SPONSORED LINKS > > Individual > > Fireant Use > > > > ________________________________ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > > > > Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service . > > > > ________________________________ > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
