Separate hosting and aggregation

I am not the only one that wants to separate hosting (publishing) and aggregation:

From James Taubers weblog:

It’s not that hard to do. Sites that aggregate just need to provide a mechanism where users can point to their data hosted somewhere else rather than have to re-enter their data in multiple aggregators. Aggregators then keep customers based on the value of their aggregation, not the lock-in of being the hosts of people’s valuable data. People who want hosting for their pictures, blogs, etc can use hosting services to do it. But their choice of hosting service should not impact their participating in aggregation and the social aspects of micro-content that follow.

I propose RSS-feeds for this.

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