BurningbirdWeb and tech standards
Sam Ruby came out with a posting that covers a conversation about characters and RSS 2.0 and Rogers Caldenhead, but ends up with a simple statement about syndication feeds: The key takeaway here is to beware of anybody who preaches one true format or one size fits all. Each format has its strengths. And none of them […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. For those of you who subscribe to my feeds, note that I’m dropping the RSS 2.0 feed starting next week. Why? Because hosting an RSS 2.0 feed is providing indirect support for behavior that sucks the joy out of my day. Because Dave Winer is a hypocrite, and the so-called RSS […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Making the rounds in the advertising world is an interesting technique, termed viral marketing: making use of social software techniques learned from spammers, virus makers, and other experts of this nature. With viral marketing, rather than a formal ad campaign, with purchased space in newspapers and time on TV, you create […]
Ben Hammersley has a new article at the Guardian on the syndication format wars, as they enter their too manyth year anniversary. As he sees it, don’t hold your breath for a united RSS/Atom syndication effort. However, unless you’re specifically coding an application that generates syndication feeds, or consumes them, most people could care less which syndication […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to Proposed Recommendation. Relieved more like it as these long awaited specifications finally reach the “proposed recommended” state, one short step before becoming formal recommendations. These documents (RDF/XML Syntax Specification, RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0, RDF Semantics, RDF Primer, RDF Test […]