Lots of discussion about the direction that RSS is going to take, which I think is good. However, the first thing that happens any time a conversation about RSS occurs is people start questioning the use of RDF within the RSS 1.0 specification, and the necessity of keeping RSS “simple”. Mark Pilgrim writes: Many people in the RSS community feel that, […]
Category: Technology
Threadneedle meets BlogMD
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I spent some time today hanging around at the BlogMD discussion group, talking about RDF, RSS, embedding problems, data models and so on. As much of a lone wolf as I must seem to people, I prefer working these types of problem as a team. There is something about multiple heads working […]
News Readers
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ben Hammersley, the author of the upcoming O’Reilly book on RSS, Content Syndication with XML and RSS has a new article out in the Guardian about RSS Newsreaders. A nice read on the subject. I don’t know what it is about Ben’s writing, but he makes technology seem so approachable and folksy. […]
Tech stuff
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Back is still quite painful, and has now been joined by cable modem. A case of new technology on old wires — for the modem, that is, not the back. Until the repair person comes out a week from tomorrow, my online access is going to be sporadic. Sam Ruby […]
A few points of clarification on RSS
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave has a long multi-part posting today about RSS as well as article that covers RSS and aggregators, which he blasts but won’t link to or provide a means for us to discover said article. He writes: A note to people writing articles about RSS-based news aggregators. UserLand wrote and deployed the first […]
