Category: Syndication

Methodize Solutions has released quickSub a Javascript widget for turning the ubiquitous orange XML buttons into something actual clickable. This smarter version of the usual syndication link pops up a contextual menu offering you the choice of subscribing to the feed with one of many aggregator choices: Subscribe to Radio Free Blogistan’s syndicated feed (RSS…

InfoWorld has published a fairly neutral overview of the current state of RSS and the Atom effort: Debate flares over Weblog standards by Cathleen Moore.

Pete Hopkins (This Pirate Kills Fascists) rounds up some recent posts about feed subscription in Telling An Aggregator To Subscribe. Besides my recent entry on this subject, he summarizes a Kevin Burton (NewsMonster) post called Aggregator Subscription Mechanisms and one by Scott Johnson (Feedster) called A Suggeston for Aggregators. Pete supports the prepended URI approach…

As Stanton Finley pointed out in my comments, AOL‘s explanation of RSS mentions that the link to the feed is not meant to be viewed in a web browser. They’ve clearly thought about the problem of people clicking those ubiquitous orange XML and RSS buttons. I’m wondering if there’s some way to tell the browser…

Reportedly, the RSS 2.0 spec is moving from UserLand’s servers to those of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, the copyright is becoming a Creative Commons license, and Dave Winer, founder and former CEO of UserLand, currently a Berkman fellow, has appointed an advisory board initially consisting of himself, Jon…

Dave Winer has hacked the ability to read pie feeds (a moving target) into the Radio aggregator (Radio UserLand : Radio gets some kind of Echo support). Welcome to RFB, where it’s all syndication all the time.