Category: Syndication

Pete Hopkins and other are debating the best way to enable newsreaders (aggregators) to autosubscribe to RSS feeds directly from the browser. Some, like Pete, prefer the idea of a new news:// protocol for web browsers. The other favored approach is to specify a new MIME type. I’m saying, let’s do both and get at…

Thursday had the most blog-related sessions at Seybold. While I was down on the pavilion floor giving a Blogging 101 free half-hour teaser in the WOW booth, I had to miss Sam Ruby’s RSS in Depth presentation. Fortunately, he posted his slides, so I (and you) can catch up on what I missed. See also…

There’s a whole new slew of name suggestions for the project to be formerly known as pie. I was surprised to see one I had suggested in an off-hand way on the #echo channel at freenode (Nota), when during the previous vote, I saw Nick Chalko fretting about what would happen if NOTA won the…

Looks like Mark Pilgrim had a productive weekend (Atom API Implementation) and now has working (RESTish, apparently) stripped-down but functional implementation of the the Pie (Mark is still calling it Atom – I will call it Pie until a consensus emerges on a new name) API (application programming interface). I gather this is a proof…

The unofficial TypePad User Group is generating a lot of ideas about, and suggestions for, the new Six Apart product. TypePad generated RSS 1.0 and Pie feeds automatically, I gather, but you can add an RSS 2.0 feed if you follow the instructions in the post to the Tips and Tricks category of the forum.

I know I just linked to Lockergnome’s RSS Resource the other day and I’m also aware that I once said I was done posting about RSS here at Radio Free Blogistan. That turned out not to be true, of course, and was mainly a result of frustration about the funk wars. Now I feel good,…