Grazing ON feeds versus grazing IN feeds
I can now see where the distinction lies between my original idea of a river of feeds and the notion of feed grazing by James Corbett. The difference is the target of consumption. I saw dynamic reading lists as a way of finding new feeds. Instead of searching them out, I could let a dynamic reading list bring them to me like a river flowing past my house. When a feed looked interesting, I could read the most recent posts without having to subscribe. If I wanted to subscribe to it, I could just drag and drop it into my permament subscription list. My model was using a dynamic reading list as a sampling method.
James was more interested in using reading lists as a way of finding interesting posts. The feeds in the list were branches on the tree that allowed him to reach tasty new acorns. He was thinking of a reading list as a browsing method. Joshua Porter was making the same point as James when he wrote that he was more interested in the post than the actual feed.
I visualize this difference as a matter of topology. I wanted to find new containers (feeds) of information that I could continue to look in for a changing set of information. James and Josh wanted to look inside the containers to find interesting items (posts) without having to worry about the original location (feed) in which they were found.
