Category: Syndication

  • 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…

  • Morbus Iff says keep Atom name for Pie format

    Amphetadesk creator Morbus Iff posted to the Atom Syntax mailing list a proposal that the Pie syndication ‘n’ API format for weblogs just go ahead and use the name Atom and stop all this endless voting. Looks like other list participants have endorsed the idea and votes are now flowing over to Atom. I voted…

  • Divide my reported hits by 24

    At birdhouse.org, Scot Hacker points out how RSS skews logs, noting that his NetNewsWire generates a hit on this site’s server logs 24 times a day. Actually, I wish I had a nice web-gui interface for sifting through my raw traffic logs but I currently don’t, so I tend to rely on numbers reported at…

  • Web to kill RSS?

    Vin Crosbie mocks Chris Pirillo’s RSS evangelism with his Why the Web Will Kill RSS. JD Lasica makes note of it and Chris comments that Vin “killed his position through a poorly-crafted parody.” Vin then responds, saying “[W]e can argue this out in true blogger style, on each of our respective blogs…. In other words,…