bspace notes

I'm going to add feeds to the site, which django makes easy to do. But I want to think about the urls for the notes feeds. I had been thinking I'd manually create a feed that can flow to planet.code4lib.org that would have been a combination of tags (at the moment 'user-context' and 'api') so that things irrelevant to code4lib don't show up. But it'd be nice to generalize this, so that anyone coming to the site can easily select multiple tag-categories and get a feed from that.

So I want to think beyond an obvious simple elegant system for single tags. (Before the idea occurred for multiple-tag feeds the url for tag 'user-context' would have been 'http://bspace.us/notes/feeds/user-context' -- but that's not extensible.)

Tripod new titles list

The tripod newtitles list has a great interface for selecting multiple categories. Selecting a few options returns a fully-parameterized url, nicely explicit if a bit busy.

For the notes feeds, I'd like to offer combined-option feeds in two ways: as parameterized, but also in a tinyurl fashion, like:

http://bspace.us/notes/feeds/arzq

If that url returned (in addition to feed info, obviously) a documentation link, the documentation could note that the link

http://bspace.us/notes/feeds/arzq/info

...would return, among other things, the explicit url.

I'll think more on this and look for other examples of interestingly-crafted feed interfaces and urls.