Category: Syndication

Dave: “I am absolutely sure I am right”

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…

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

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…

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…

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…