Radio Musings

I haven't done an early morning ramble about Radio in a while. This morning I was reading through all the various RSS feeds I started thinking about the Radio community. RSS is way of syndicating content. For instance, I have that little orange 'xml' button over to the right. This is links to an xml version of my blog that people can subscribe to. There are then programs that pull down RSS feeds and let you browse through all the content from them. It really is pretty cool. I keep up with a few blogs and a number of news services this way.

But this morning I realized there is something about the use of it in blogs that doesn't quite fit how I read blogs. These days many blogs let you post comments to the posts in them. This is actually one of the things I love about blogs. People's web pages are not only providing content, but also have a level of interactivity. On more then one occasion people have even posted information to my blog correcting a post I had, which makes that content important.

To me, this doesn't quite fit with the whole RSS thing. Because with RSS you don't have to go visit the web page, which means you might not see comments that have been made to a post. What's the solution? I'm not sure. I see two possibilities. The first is to find a way to include a link to comments within your RSS feed. Unfortunately I don't know enough about RSS to do this. Another possibility would be to syndicate comments via RSS but that could get very spammy. Hmmm. What to do what to do.