RSS and information channels
email
webpages
phone
How hard would it be to create a unified format and language that translates (both ways) between any pair of formats / media?
Could we extend RSS for such a purpose?
The advantage is that current filtering is format-based: i.e. all your email is in one place, all your voice mail in another, whereas it would be much better for things to be subject-based or project-based (i.e. bills to pay in one screen, university-related research in another screen, etc) in a goal-subgoal tree.
An analogous problem is that windows in Windows tend to be grouped by application. This is (poorly) solved in Unix, by using several Desktops.
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LJ notification should work in terms of a blog-wide RSS: for any new comment in my blog, make an RSS entry, and set up an RSS->email agent to notify when comments were made. Also, for any reply directed to me, or any new comments in a thread that I choose to subscribe should become items in the RSS. Likewise, a smart (possibly collaborative) filter could deliver interesting blog entries.
I'd like to make a bot to handle all my LJ notification for me. This seems quite feasible... if perhaps inefficient without LJ's collaboration.
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Btw, what about these ideas?
phone call
* leave a voice mail as an MP3 (I know of no VoIP service that supports this)
* email -> voice mail (voice synthesizer)
webpages
phone
How hard would it be to create a unified format and language that translates (both ways) between any pair of formats / media?
Could we extend RSS for such a purpose?
The advantage is that current filtering is format-based: i.e. all your email is in one place, all your voice mail in another, whereas it would be much better for things to be subject-based or project-based (i.e. bills to pay in one screen, university-related research in another screen, etc) in a goal-subgoal tree.
An analogous problem is that windows in Windows tend to be grouped by application. This is (poorly) solved in Unix, by using several Desktops.
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LJ notification should work in terms of a blog-wide RSS: for any new comment in my blog, make an RSS entry, and set up an RSS->email agent to notify when comments were made. Also, for any reply directed to me, or any new comments in a thread that I choose to subscribe should become items in the RSS. Likewise, a smart (possibly collaborative) filter could deliver interesting blog entries.
I'd like to make a bot to handle all my LJ notification for me. This seems quite feasible... if perhaps inefficient without LJ's collaboration.
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Btw, what about these ideas?
phone call
* leave a voice mail as an MP3 (I know of no VoIP service that supports this)
* email -> voice mail (voice synthesizer)