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Fetch delivers Enterprise Streaming

Fetch delivers on the enterprise streaming side of klogging. 

• Server pulls SQL data from sources, on schedule, outputs RSS feeds. 
• Clients grab feeds, scroll news in a task bar UI.

Note the variable query frequency: pulled more often for rapidly changing data, presented more prominently for more important data.

Why isn't this database bridge part of Radio or Manila?

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» An interesting light weight RSS client that scrolls headlines and gives a click through to more info.  Reminds me of PointCast (who now seem to be InfoGate, "enabling leading media companies to offer turnkey premium subscription services to their clients").

As Phil mentions there is no reason why Radio/Frontier couldn't act as the FetchServer part of a Radio based enterprise RSS streaming network.  Although the Radio client would need a lot of work to be as functional in that context.

The strength (and weakness) of the Fetch client is that it is always visible, docked to the taskbar.  With headlines scrolling continuously.  However I can imagine that it also becomes a distraction, or an annoyance, especially if you are subscribed to a lot of channels.

You have to see the production

"!lilia" has pointed me at Knowledge work as craft work an article from April 2002 by "!mostlymcgee" which is most pertinent given my new focus on visibility.

It's a good read.  Of particular interest to me was where Jim talks about how, with the advent of purely digital methods of working, only the finished product survives.  This implies that it is only the finished item, and not how it was derived, that has value.  But we know that's wrong, our experience tells us that seeing the production is how we learn.

Another key aspect to visibility into a process is what you do when the finished item turns out to be wrong.  If you need to backtrack and try a new direction, what are you working from?