BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Debate is not a game one plays when one is bored or has little else to do. Debate is a way of people trying to understand each other’s point of view. At the least, it is a way of discussing points of view for an audience in order to convince […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This week, the RDF Working Group released drafts of six working documents for the RDF specification. Six. That’s a whole lot of work. However, rather than getting a pat on the back with a quiet “Well done.”, the group has seen their effort catechized mercilessly. Joe Gregorio chronicles Tim Bray’s half-hearted attempt to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There’s now an associated RSS feed with weblogs.com. With this, aggregators could check the feed to know when to poll an individual weblog RSS feed. On the face, this sounds good: stop all that polling and all those hits to our RSS files. However, the problem with this approach is that […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If you’re a Movable Type user and are using the templates provided with the new RSS Validator, be aware of the following line: <content:encoded><![CDATA[<$MTEntryBody$>]]></content:encoded> This will include your entire post within the feed. I didn’t pay that much attention to the template or the generated output until this weekend when News is […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby created an RSS Validator for us to use to validate our RSS feeds, and Bill Kearney was kind enough to host it. Many appreciations, folks. I ran the Validator against my RSS feeds (both Userland RSS and RDF/RSS feeds) per Mark’s request and as I expected my Userland RSS feed didn’t work, being […]