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Payloads for RSS

Dave Winer, Userland, Jan 18, 2003

An "enclosure" is an RSS link that points to a large digital object, such as Grateful Dead song sored in MP3. The purpose of enclosures is to enable high-bandwidth tansactions - such as the downloading of said song - to occur in the middle of the night so that the resulting multimedia will pop up fresh, fast and local the next day. It's a nifty idea and a nifty use of RSS with the potential to be enormously subversive - just the combination I like!

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