Feeds are NOT just a way to craft a personal selection of news in a personal LOCAL UI, with optional full-text-search, local storage for articles, tagging etc B

Feeds are NOT just a way to craft a personal selection of news in a personal LOCAL UI, with optional full-text-search, local storage for articles, tagging etc BUT also a simple form of asynchronous/lazy push-pull notifications. For instance we can have feeds for: - all software project we use/follow, to get info about a new release without having to go to a site/read an ML etc and perhaps finding the Changelog directly in the feed; - be advised of a new invoice from some company, a simple way no enterprise I know offer, but on par with emails to give an invoice, perhaps with the attached pdf and an easy to auto-parse data fields to munge easily relevant infos in a personal system, like match the invoice with a banking transaction, adding it to a personal agenda etc ALL with few lines of code from ALL parties instead of utterly complicated crapware monsters; - follow some books authors or special offers as a form of self-chose, not invasive ads - automation as machine-to-machine, using the XML in automated (and eventually authenticated) fashion. The real issues are: - all modern IT is designed for CONSUMING contents in eterodirected ways, users MUST BE powerless dumb sheep; - most users actually ARE CL from Simon's BOFH memories with systems force them in such sorry state.