Matt update….. More about k-collector.
A little bit of background about the k-collector client.
k-collector client for Radio Userland is really a totally stripped down version of liveTopics. Out go tables of contents, local databases of topics, lots of macros, XFML, XTM and a raft of other stuff i'm like.
What you end up with is a simple client designed to bootstrap itself from an online cloud of topics. For an example of such a cloud is here. Topics created on the local system are exported via the RSS feed using ENT and from there appear on the k-collector server. Each k-collector client regularly polls the cloud looking for new topics and makes them available locally.
It's a nice, simple, dynamic system for publishing using shared topics.
What k-collector doesn't have most people probably won't miss (especially if they are using a k-collector server) and as a result k-collector is much smaller, lighter and more stable than liveTopics. liveTopics is a complicated application and the combination of Radio & Usertalk don't really support complexity very well. k-collector should suffer from far less problems than it's bigger counterpart.
More later. [Curiouser and curiouser!]
K-Colector is a new kind of aggregator that supports ENT. It is a model for all sorts of new kinds of aggregators – which can act as debuggers in the early stages in the development process of new standards. [Marc's Voice]