RSS Hits the Big Time (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rssstimulus

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rssstimulus RSS Hits the Big Time (Aaron Swartz's Raw

Via David: Obama segna un punto per la trasparenza. Il pacchetto stimulus richiede alle agenzie governative di produrre un feed con le elargizioni di denaro. Gov meshup, here we come.

The US Government are requiring agencies to publish funding information through RSS feeds. "For each of the near term reporting requirements (major communications, formula block grant allocations, weekly reports) agencies are required to provide a feed (preferred: Atom 1.0, acceptable: RSS) of the information so that content can be delivered via subscription."

the new stimulus bill’s implementation instructions require that each government agency report the money it gives out in RSS: For each of the near term reporting requirements (major communications, formula block grant allocations, weekly reports) agencies are required to provide a feed (preferred: Atom 1.0, acceptable: RSS) of the information so that content can be delivered via subscription.

"the new stimulus bill’s implementation instructions require that each government agency report the money it gives out in RSS:"

As chaunceyt pointed out, the new stimulus bill’s implementation instructions require that each government agency report the money it gives out in RSS

sweet sweet RSS nozzle

"For each of the near term reporting requirements (major communications, formula block grant allocations, weekly reports) agencies are required to provide a feed (preferred: Atom 1.0, acceptable: RSS) of the information so that content can be delivered via subscription." --- Now, someone needs to figure out where each of these feeds is (will be?) published, and write an aggregator so that there's a one-stop-shopping end-point.

"[T]he new stimulus bill’s implementation instructions require that each government agency report the money it gives out in RSS… The document is very clear that the items in the feed can’t simply be unstructured text, but have to be reusable data… Pretty amazing to see a government so tech-savvy."

pubsub appengine atom http webhooks

A simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as a simple extension to Atom.

A simple but clever way of using web hooks (HTTP callbacks) to inform subscribers that an Atom feed has updated in almost real-time.

A simple, open, web-hook-based pubsub protocol & open source reference implementation.

Une architecture distribuée de Pub/Sub avec HTTP

Atomisator is a data aggregator framework. Its purpose is to provide an engine to build any kind of data by merging several sources of data.

Atomisator – Trac; homepage for book and Atomisator project; September 2008 ISBN 184719494X; This book is an authoritative exploration of Python best practices and applications of agile methodologies to Python, illustrated with practical, real-world examples.

The key thing to remember is that REST is about building software that scales to usage on the World Wide Web by being a good participant of the Web ecosystem. Ideally a RESTful API should be designed to be implementable by thousands of websites and consumed by hundreds of applications running on dozens of platforms with zero coupling between the client applications and the Web services. A great example of this is RSS/Atom feeds which happen to be one of the world's most successful RESTful API stories.

The simplest OData service can be implemented as simply as a static file that follows the OData ATOM or JSON payload conventions. For scenarios beyond static content, frameworks are available to help in creating OData services. See the OData developer page for additional information.

New open data protocol being pushed by Microsoft

http://feeds.feedburner.com/PaulDixExplainsNothing

another ruby feed library. might not suck.