[Tech] F2F news/blogging

[Matthew Toseland]

On Wednesday 16 January 2008 15:53, Michael Rogers wrote:
> This is an old idea of mine that could be implemented with N2NMs - similar 
> to Syndie but with an F2F distribution mechanism.
> 
> A journal is a series of articles signed with the author's private key. The 
> articles in the journal may be written by the user or reposted from other 
> journals, either manually or automatically (syndication). When a user 
> writes or reposts an article it's sent to her online friends and queued for 
> her offline friends. Articles can be marked 'friends only', in which case 
> they should never be reposted, but obviously this can't be enforced - you 
> just have to trust your friends.
> 
> A user who reads a reposted article and wants to subscribe to the author's 
> journal (to read and/or syndicate it) sends a subscription request to the 
> friend in whose journal she read the article. If the friend is already 
> subscribed to the requested journal, she forwards subsequent articles to 
> the requester. If the friend reposted an individual article but doesn't 
> subscribe to the journal herself, she can forward the request to the friend 
> in whose journal she read the article, and so on. (Requests to offline 
> users are queued.) Eventually the publisher or a subscriber will be found 
> and the new subscription path can be established.
> 
> Any thoughts?

What is the benefit of doing it over N2NMs rather than over simple USK feeds?
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
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