Re: Aggregator as archives, not only as instant readers
Dave Winer
said it so it must be wrong. Actually
in this case, he most certainly is.
I'm not exactly sure how anyone can say "aggregators should not organize news by where items came from, just present the news in reverse chronologic order"--and still have a straight face. I'm thinking I'm reading it wrong or out of direct context.
Aggregators can present the news in reverse chronological order. Sure--and they would stop there why? Because you might never want to browse or search for a particular post by author, source, whatever metainfo, etc. I guess I should go back and load up Radio and suffer through some 'pure' aggregation for a few days and try and find the merits. Or not.
If you think aggregators are for news, or for social networking, you're right and you're right. And don't forget that they're also for information. Like say I wanted to go back and re-read that article on MSDN about RPC vs SOAP. NewsGator puts me into the post and onto the article in a second or two. Which is naturally useful, and just the start of other obvious uses that stem from being able to mine feed stores in some basic (and also obvious) ways. Beyond reverse chronological order lol.