An example of filecasting - you can download the attached file direct from your feed reader

21-November-2005

This post demonstrates the merits of "filecasting" as a way of sharing files. If you add an attachment to a weblog post, it is made available in the RSS 2 feed for direct downloading from your feed reader. And since our discussions also support the 'editing APIs', you can also post and attach directly from a weblog editor. No-one need ever even visit the site!

A key advantage of rich RSS for collaboration spaces is that it allows people to track a large number of discussions, distributed across disparate systems. With the advent of podcasting and filecasting, this is even easier. If you subscribe to the RSS 2 feed for this weblog, you'll see that when there is a file attached to a post, you have access to it directly from your feed reader, without having to visit the site.

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The advantage of this system over having to remember to re-visit all the websites you area member of is obvious

It advantage over emailing files to everyone who may want them is that the user "pulls" instead of being "pushed at". Instead of unwelcome emails disturbing my concentration - and being quickly forgotten as they are pushed down my inbox by yet more emails, I track projects and discussions through RSS when I choose to. And my organisation of feeds serves as a memory for the content I've been tracking.

And since our discussions also support the 'editing APIs', you can also post and attach directly from a weblog editor. No-one need ever even visit the site! For instance, I attached the pdf file above just by dragging it into my editing pane in ecto.


Mike Malloch; 21-November-2005 18:35:15 forum (4)

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