Comments on: Syndication and accountability http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/01/15/syndication-and-accountability/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Michael R. Bernstein http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/01/15/syndication-and-accountability/#comment-122205 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:16:19 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/01/15/syndication-and-accountability/#comment-122205 “Note also that Jeff’s caveat about “which recipients of the original record need to be notified” implies owner-initiated push. But if the recipient is a subscriber, that update channel is already open and ready for use.”

Hmm. We need to be clear on the division of responsibilities here: The owner is responsible for making notifications available, but the client is still responsible for initiating the retrieval.

I think Dave Winer observed once that most ‘push’ architectures are actually ‘scheduled pull’, and that pretty much all successful architectures are pull-oriented, at least at the receiving edge.

‘Push’ only seems to work from the edge to the center (if there is one), or from the edge to the cloud (if there isn’t).

]]> By: stand http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/01/15/syndication-and-accountability/#comment-121660 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:56:26 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/01/15/syndication-and-accountability/#comment-121660 Amen! It would save me a lot of heartache at work if I could get the medical records people to understand this.

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