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Dave Winer is marketing his reading list concept, and today's pitch is the idea of short-lived feed subscriptions. He uses a feed about Senate confirmation hearings as an example:
Scripting News: 1/16/2006
But here's the rub, next week and the week after, when it's history, all those aggregators will still be checking it, even though it will never again be updated.Not if they obey HTTP error codes... 410, for example. If JournURL's internal aggregator gets a 410 when it requests a feed, that's it. No more requests, and the user is unsubbed. We don't keep knockin' on a door that has been explicitly closed.
This isn't to suggest that I think reading lists are a bad idea... they're interesting. But I think Dave is overselling a bit in this case, pitching them as a solution to a problem that wouldn't exist if people would just use the tech we already have.
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