Category: Syndication

  • How dialogue becomes impossible

    Dave: “I am absolutely sure I am right”

  • Meta meta meta blogging

    Metafilter is hosting one of the many discussions of the latest round of the Dave vs. Mark pissing match entrancing a tiny minority of humanity these days. Don Park’s blog post comments section is hosting a better one (if you can ignore my double-posting there). Scott Rosenberg has an opinion on this too. Me, I’m…

  • RSS-to-necho converter

    For those interested in experimenting with a semibaked *echo feed, Tristan Louis sent me this link to his RSS2Necho converter page.

  • Adam Curry: No money for necho

    From Rogers Cadenhead’s Workbench we learn that Adam Curry plans to spend $10,000 on default aggregator placement in the coming year, to be spread exclusively among developers who shun ne(xt)cho. Still trying to work out if I’m “shocked, shocked” to learn that this placement was going on in the first place. Does Wil Wheaton pay…

  • Tracking *echo

    A new TypePad blog, Fecho has assigned itself the mission of “following the syndication framework formerly known as Echo.” List, thus far very short lists, of people in the right column are divided into Fechers and Fechless. So far there’s a hello world and some comments on John Robb‘s abrupt-seeming departure from Userland. His old…

  • What RSS is good for

    Zeldman (shouldn’t he have a magician title, like “The Astounding Zeldman” or “The Amazing Zeldman”?) catches up on the two latest weblog fads – GoogleAds and bitching about RSS. As always, he strikes a fair balance between extolling the simplicty of RSS and acknowledging the legitimate issues driving the ne(cho)xt thing: RSS 2.0 was frozen…

  • Different flavors of wikiNature?

    Responding to Bill de Hora’s suggestion that the Echo Project wiki lacks wikiNature, Joe of Joe’s Java counters that there are good reasons why the project wiki differs from wikis that are designed as evolving collaborative knowledge repositories (The EchoWiki is different from the C2 Wiki, and for good reason…): The EchoWiki is using the…

  • Vendor-neutral subscription link

    I was searching for a gentle introduction to FOAF when I stumbled upon a PURL-based generic newsfeed subscription page. I’ve never liked the aggregator-specific icons for subscribing to my feeds since they include anyone who isn’t a Radio or Amphetadesk or Syndic8 or NetNewWire or NewMonster, etc., user. This seems like an elegant solution. If…

  • Limpet pools of NetNewsWire subscriptions

    The Ranchero news blog mentions that Dave Taylor has written a small C app called Limpet that generates an OPML file of NetNewsWire’s subscriptions. Doesn’t NNW’s export feature do the same thing? Maybe the difference is automation? I’m actually having trouble synching my NNW and Radio aggregator subscriptions. I tried exporting my subs from NNW…

  • Give up the funk

    There is an interesting discussion in the comment thread for Dave Winer’s Why I said Movable Type’s RSS support is ‘funky’ post. The title for that post is accurate insofar as Dave explains why he accused Six Apart of not respecting the RSS spec, but maddeningly evasive when it comes ot explaining precisely what he…

  • DaveNet : New York Times Archive and Weblogs

    Hey, it’s an RSS flood as my various sites come back online and blogs start updating themselves as if by magic. I liked this piece by Dave: DaveNet : New York Times Archive and Weblogs, but as with all revolutionary visions, I find it to overstate the new equilibrium point, which I suspect will not…

  • Open question for Dave Winer

    Dave, please explain to those of us who are not down with every nuance of RSS politics exactly how Six Apart is abusing the RSS spec. Thanks! Reference: When users flame. Movable Type users, predictably flame me for advocating a time-tested way of evolving software, explained by Don Park. In so many ways we’re hitting…

  • My RSS feeds are flaky

    Sometimes my Radio RSS aggregator just seems to miss a post or three from a given site. I use it to gather posts to my other blogs all in one place (x-syndicate) and then I generally promote most general interest entries to the Radio Free Blogistan blog, since it has the largest regular audience (Memewatch…

  • An XML format for small-business info feeds

    One of the “latest things” that Chris Pirillo was excited about the other night was Dan Bricklin’s SMBmeta Initiative. According to Ross Mayfield This metadata scheme allows small and medium size businesses to express their identity in XML. Ross summarizes David Weinberger on some of the strengths of this approach: Dan doesn’t want to own…