Category: Syndication

  • This thing on?

    This thing on?

    If I did this right, then my blog is now on the Fediverse at @xian@mediajunkie.com — do the double at signs bother any else? @@

  • Furrygoat's Law

    The Furrygoat Experience: Furrygoat’s Law: [Backup Brain] Thanks to Medley (see post below), I now know what I was looking for was Letts Law: "All programs evolve until they can send email." Or maybe it’s Zawinski’s Law, "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail." I’m going to take this and put my…

  • Steve Rubel foresees 'Save as RSS' in Word

    Quoting from Is Microsoft Gearing Up for “Save as RSS?”: Microsoft is switching to XML as the default format for Office files, Reuters reports. Let’s hope this means we’ll get a save as RSS functionality in Word. ‘twould be nice.

  • Does Bloglines violate our copyrights?

    I’ve been waiting for someone to formally complain about the way bloglines reproduces full text feeds in a web format:

  • Newsforge's quick RSS primer

    This article by Philip J. Hollenback cites Bloglines, Flickr, and del.icio.us as the killer apps for RSS.

  • IDG announces RSS conference in New York

    Quoting RSS Conference in NYC (Steve Rubel’s Micro Persuasion): IDG announced a new conference focusing on content syndication. The theme of the inaugural show will be RSS: Risk, Reward and Revolution. The conference is billed as executive-level, and created for content owners and producers, media execs, corporate marketers, advertisers and PR professionals.

  • How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own) – Engadget – www.engadget.com ++

    Engagdget published a guide to podcasting (time-shifted syndicated online audio/radio type content developed and popularized by Dave Winer and Adam Curry) by Phillip Torrone back in October of this year (pretty fast out of the gate): Quoting from How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own) : This week’s How-To is…

  • Aggregator watch

    Clearing out an old TypePad test blog, I’m porting over some relevant comments from the beta, such as this one from when I noticed that there was no built-in aggregrator (I misplaced the date, but it was sometime in 2003 and I’m though filing a few others around their original datestamps in the RFB chronolog,…

  • Insert quip about reverse-engineering USENET here

    Laura Lemay isn’t the first person to point out that the blogosphere seems to be gradually reinventing the USENET netnews feature set (feeds == usenet), but it’s fun to read her make these points: Why am I noting these things? Issues of distributing news in either a one-to-many fashion or peer-to-peer, or of uniquely identifying…

  • Sam Ruby calls for RSS/Atom détente

    Sam Ruby suggests that there is no one-size-fits-all syndication format and recommends a spirit of cooperation and mutual support to the extent possible.

  • Structuring blog entries for scanning

    Jon Udell, one of the deeper thinkers around on matters of weblog, syndication, journalism, and information overload has come up with some important “best practices” suggestions for structuring weblog entries to facilitate efficient scanning by readers trying to follow many information sources through their RSS feeds, in Heads, Decks, and Leads: I’m reversing my former…

  • The mountain goes to Mohamet

    Looks like there’s forward motion on some client-side applications of the feed validator, spurred on by some recent posts by Brent Simmons, Mark Pilgrim, and others.

  • Who subscribes to RFB

    Dave Winer’s OPML commons for sharing RSS subscription lists has a feature you can use to see who is subscribing to a given feed (limited by who is participating and who has made their subscriptions visible to others). For example, here are some of the people who subscribe to Radio Free Blogistan’s RSS feed.

  • Not all RSS users welcome

    Dave Winer has started a Yahoo group (mailing list) for RSS users. He’s moderating it, which is a good idea given the personality-flames that otherwise accrue in online discussions surrounding Dave and the formats he has championed. As I am a user of RSS and a contributor to Lockergonegnome’s RSS Resourse (as well as maintaining…

  • Rebranding RSS and syndication

    Your grandmother doesn’t do HTTP and she doesn’t know from XHTML. You didn’t buy her a computer so she could access SMTP and IMAP and POP. No, it took words like internet, web, and e-mail to help people who hadn’t been reading William Gibson make sense of this strange new world. Bloggers and people who…

  • If you don't have a feed, you're not in my blogroll

    I’ve been having a devil of a time getting Radio to update the relevant include, so I finally did it manually, and now my blogroll is synchronized with my actual current syndicated-feed subscription list (at least within a few days). I’m using NetNewsWire as my newsfeed client (and for manually posting links and quotations to…

  • AmphetaDesk-to-MT hack details

    Ask and ye shall receive (thank you, o lazyweb): Andrew Bayer provides the first draft of his AmphetaDesk-to-MT hack in a post responding to my previous entry (which he, yes, saw in his aggregrator and cross-posted to his blog). I think the blockquoting convention Andrew added is an improvement! I wish Radio used something similar…

  • Hooking up AmphetaDesk to Movable Type

    Salon blogger Andrew Bayer has recently migrated his weblog from Radio to Movable Type, which lacks a built-in posting aggregrator. To remedy this, he has figured out a way to hook up Amphetadesk to MT. Very nice. Andrew, did you have to hack AmphetaDesk or MT or both? Either way, please share what you’ve learned…

  • Talking Points Memo joins the syndixphere

    Joshua Micah Marshall’s essential broadsheet, Talking Points Memo, has retooled its back end with Movable Type 2.64. The design is about the same, although the column width is thankfully a tad wider. Naturally, the site now has an RSS feed (featuring excerpts, which is the default in MT’s templates), in plain and peanut. UPDATE: TPM…

  • Weblog strategies for nonprofits

    One of the students in my weblogs class at Seybold last month was the web administrator of the Community Technology Foundation of California (zerodivide.org). They use a sophisticated CMS to maintain the site but are experimenting with weblogs and wanted to see whether they might be more easily customizable, because – we agreed – different…

  • MailBucket, an email-to-RSS gateway

    Reading a comment thread discussing Jeremy Allaire’s RSS-Data proposal, I came across an announcement for MailBucket, an email-to-RSS gateway. This allows you to subscribe to your own email in a news aggregrator. What I need is an RSS-to-email gateway, though, so I can send out my posts as email and enable subscribers without relying on…