In his post Embedding Atom elements in your RSS 2.0 feed, Andrew Grumet explores the value of using ATOM elements, particularly <atom:author>, to replace core RSS 2.0 elements.
I certainly applaud the effort. Anything that makes RSS 2.0 more useful is great as far as I’m concerned. What’s odd to me is the fact that he appears to get a pass WRT “funkiness” from Dave Winer.
Well, since I’ve gone to the effort to list the advantages of text over audio for traditional blogging, I should probably spend some time exploring what audio blogs could be used for that would add something useful to the blogosphere.
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Dave Winer has begun an experiment in audio weblogging. Various other experiments in Audio Blogging have been tried and I haven’t liked a single one. Now that Dave has seemingly revived this movement, I figure it’s worth commenting on.
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Dave Winer comments on a recent Wired article that raises concerns about the scalability issues associated with aggregators polling RSS/ATOM feeds.
The article points out the most significant current issues (poorly written aggregators & questionable feed content strategies), but even fixing those items won’t solve the problem for long. While some are rightly exploring the concept of a new, distributed model for subscriptions, others are suggesting that aggregators simply enforce hard restrictions on polling intervals. Doing so would be an incredibly unfortunate and short-sighted approach as it would unnecessarily limit a number potential, albeit non-traditional, uses for RSS/ATOM.
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Adam Curry: “I want to be creating and distributing content to everybody in the simpelest way possible. Blogger, MoveableType and Typepad users surely want the same.”
I’m a user. I’m also a developer. In fact, as a developer, I’m a user. As a developer, it is important to me that I chose formats that will scale to my needs. RSS 2.0 is simple, and good for doing a great many things, particularly syndicating weblog (or similar) content. However, “syndication” feeds and aggregators are becoming useful for other types of information as well. Apple and Amazon have touched on the edges of this, but so much more A Murder Is Announced trailer is actually possible.
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Adam Curry: “[Google] is betting its future and shareholders money with a plan has historically been proven to fail. That is sad.”
Adam is referring, here, to Googles support for ATOM. There are so many things wrong with this, that I’m not entirely sure where to begin.
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Via Tim Bray: “…Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23
, find the 5th sentence, and post its text along with these instructions. I would add to the instructions: point back to where you got the idea so that we can follow the threads.”
From The New Hacker’s Dictionary, Third Edition: “The thought of uttering something that logically ought to be an affirmative knowing it will be misparsed as a negative tends to disturb them.”
This is like a bad blog chain letter…The Family That Preys video
City of Ghosts psp Idiocracy video
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