Category: Syndication

  • 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…