Hunting The Muse

What I really want

What I really want in a blog tool:

Blog content stored in xml format
Blog software is a daemon that receives entries
Daemon can receive entries locally or remotely
Blog daemon regenerates content of blogpage(s) when entries are
    published (which can be on receipt).
Blog daemon is open-source and can be hosted extended on my own server.
Blog daemon could also be installed as a service to remotely publish to
    other multiple blogpages if someone wanted to do that (have
    subscribers).
Blog daemon could also read an *rss feed* as an alternative data format,
    to display in snazzy html or whatever.

What I really want in an rss aggregation tool:

It will tell me of feeds I can subscribe to.
While browsing, it will automatically discover new feeds, either by
    - letting me drag urls into the rss reader
    - hooking into my browser and letting me press a button in my
      browser to subscribe to the feed (better)
    - silently scrape rss feeds as I browse, to be collected into an
      "approve?" list when I go back to the reader, after which I can
      pull them into my actual rss read list.
It will remember what I have read and what I haven't.
It will let me select favorite items within any feed, and categorize
    them into a favorite categories.
It will let me sort these flagged items by category, into new RSS feeds,
    complete with attribution, and let me write further comments around 
    them if I so choose.
It will let me syndicate these new aggregated feeds, probably by
    publishing them to my website.

There isn't a blog tool that does all that. There isn't an aggregation tool that does all that. When they exist, the end result is true aggregated collaborative syndication. Posted by Curt at October 10, 2002 04:44 AM