[olug] RSS, Atom , etc.

[Daniel Pfile]

Joe Gulizia wrote:
> What do RSS and Atom do for a website?
>
> Why would an end user want me to make it part of my site?
>
>   
One thing that may apply to scola that doesn't to most sites, is scola
broadcasts video. And video podcasts are just rss files with links to mpegs.

There are a number of players in the works that take these feeds and
aggregate them, making an internet cable system of sorts. itunes is a
big example of one.

You can also transcode to flash video and make it a normal news type
blog, with video embedded.

OR, you could just use it to announce new features, sales pitches, fund
drives, etc, to your users. Like a mailing list, except they pull.

Normal http transport still applies, so you can still restrict access
with http auth, since I see you only allow internet video to certain people.

-- Daniel