Re: Semantics

[Ken MacLeod <ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Henry Story <henry.story@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The rectangles represent the Feed Objects. MyFeed can only point to
> Entrys. But Entry2 at some point also became a Feed (hence it is
> surrounded by a rectangle). Entry2 as a feed can point to other
> entries.

I think the model of "feeds are entries" or "feeds of feeds" is a
misunderstanding.

As Bob Wyman mentioned elsewhere, "it's the entries".  It's all about
relationships between entries.  Feeds are a convenience for providing
tailored notification for related entries, and make relatively bad
"containers" when the relationship between entries is not understood.

A site with a "single feed" usually is a sequence of entries that
appear one after the other chronologically.

A site that has "multiple feeds" usually has those entries appearing
in "multiple categories", sometimes those entries appear in more than
one feed for that reason.

Some sites have "multiple feeds" that have a "main entry" with a
series of "sub-entries" (most often called "comments").

Some sites have "multiple feeds" because the scope or application of
the content is different (main, remaindered links, photos, playlists).

It doesn't seem to make much sense trying to "relate feeds to each
other" when, if you are going through the effort of describing the
relation anyway, one could more effectively relate entries to each
other, and just lump them all into one stream of notification, er,
feed.

  -- Ken