Jay Fienberg zeros in on the key ideas Gary Lawrence Murphy (phew) was illustrating in Echos of RSS and I was implying in Value-Added RSS Feeds.  In "Value-add feeds are like microcontent (list and packages)", he had some memorable bits worth several long chewing sessions:

"what I think Don and Gary are commenting on, is the feed of microcontent streams itself being used like microcontent: that is, where the feed is itself easy to reuse, refactor and add value to it."

"I think information is really an art—that is how it is different than data."

"So, I think this whole microcontent thing, and what I see as a parallel with value-add feeds, among other things, is like developing motifs with information."

Yes, Jay.  We are not just travelling in the same general direction, we are on the same road.