August 17, 2003
london art aggregator
Annuncin': the London art aggregator - an RSS feed containing exhibitions on at the moment.
It's in beta, let me know what you think, especially anything wrong!
One point about RSS I want to highlight:
RSS as it stands is useless for its main use: providing information on What's New on a site. It has no context of the user, no idea of what is actually new for you. Other similar protocols use unique ids, timestamps or some way of providing context to the server, so it only returns what is relevent to you. RSS can't cope with this.
Returning a completely arbitrary 15 entries is pointless if none, or fifty, would be more useful to you.
My feed makes an assumption to provide relevant information - that you want information about today. i.e. the context is a time period. It's also taking a fixed locational context of London. Just these two pieces of information means that the information provided is designed to be useful to you.
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