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Revision r1.1 - 04 Mar 2002 - 18:42 GMT - LesOrchard

I guess I'll start musing in here, hopefully someone will stumble along.

Okay, so my first thought is: I know to whom I am subscribed, but how do I know the converse? The neat thing on LiveJournal is when you're bopping along, check your User Info page, and discover that 1 or 2 new people have jumped on your bandwagon. You can then reciprocate and expand your Friends list with them.

There is, of course, the web bug on RadioUserLand weblog skins which reports back to the UserLand mothership about the referring URL from which the current viewer came. But when someone is subscribed to me, they're pulling down my RSS XML feed and not linking to me from anywhere. In fact, it's likely they're not even looking at my weblog, per se.

Furthermore, the web bug reports on the referrer, not on the person who has actually travelled the link. And, even if I did try using the REMOTE_HOST or whatever of the person viewing my weblog, that just ties me to their web browser or firewall, and not their actual weblog. So it seems I need their News Aggregator to actually tell me, "Hey, I'm grabbing your RSS, and oh yeah, here's where you can grab mine, if you're interested."

However, it looks like DaveWiner announced a web bug simulator feature in RadioUserLand that causes Radio's News Aggregator to report back to the mothership about which RSS channels it has slurped down and the volume of entries slurped. Okay, this seems like a start.

Only, I'm seeing a lot of http://127.0.0.1:5335/ URLs in there. So, I'm thinking that even though this is a report on the accesses of RSS XML, it is still a referrer link report. So I'm seeing info about how a person found me, but not where I can find them.

Hmm.

-- LesOrchard - 04 Mar 2002

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