Re: Recommendations and making money

Martin L Poulter <M.L.Poulter@...> wrote:

> How far off is this functionality, if it's far off at all?

Seems to me that this is the perfect application for an RSS file (of course
I'm a bit biased, but still...):

> 2a) Title e.g. "Most-regretted book purchases"
> 2b) Description e.g. "Stupid books with clever jacket blurb."

rss:title, rss:description for a channel element

> 1a) URI [These *can* be shop URIs including my affiliate ID]
> 1b) Title "The Unutterable" "Trinity V3 Keyboard"
> 1c) Creator "The Fall" "Korg"
> 1d) Description "Relatively accessible "The digitally-modelled
> (short, freetext) and very punky... sounds blow me away...

rss:link, rss:title, dc:creator, rss:description would work for all of
those.

Punching that into an RSS file gives me:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rdf:RDF 
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
>
<channel