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Child elements of character data can be moved around too.

XML elements can contain both text and child elements. Character data didn't have to be stored in an attribute to allow outline nesting. ... ...

If someone wanted to extend OPML into another domain, even if they got others to agree on their proposed type value and the new attributes added to support that type, there's nothi…

I love love love XML, but when I encounter an effort to use it to carry presentation like HTML alongside executable code -- such as Apache Jelly -- I regret the choices that brough…

I wouldn't call it underrated. OPML is useful because people use it, but it was a bad design decision to store long blocks of HTML inside XML attributes instead of XML elements. Lo…

Atom is a great feed format with a rock-solid spec. I wouldn't call it a weird mashup for WordPress to use atom:link in their RSS feeds. It does things no RSS element can do, such …

I think the inspiration was that an atom is a foundational building block of matter and a lot of things could be built with a well-specified universal feed format and publishing fo…

I wouldn't say that an Atom feed is an implementation of the "RSS concept." That muddies the water too much. Because RSS and Atom are distinct feed formats, calling an Atom feed "R…

Because of his new request for an attribution change, the credit line now reads, "This document is authored by the RSS Advisory Board and is offered under the terms of the Creative…

The credit line on the specification has been unchanged since Aug. 12, 2006: "This document is authored by the RSS Advisory Board and is offered under the terms of the Creative Com…

As part of the RSS Advisory Board, I enjoyed the history lesson. The W3C should keep publishing the RSS 2.0 specification along with the RSS 1.0 and Atom specifications in the docu…

I'm Rogers Cadenhead, the chairman of the RSS Advisory Board. What W3C is doing is correct. It is republishing our copy of the RSS specification under the terms of the Creative Com…

Most instances follow the Mastodon Covenant, whose promises include giving users three months warning before a shutdown. https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

Mastodon looks workable to me. Choosing a Mastodon instance is like signing up for an email provider. Email is decentralized and seems to be doing alright. I picked an instance tha…

Three other witnesses have come forward and said that they were concerned the woman was too drunk to consent. Artur Bergman's account: "Me and my friend realized we had seen Scoble…

I don't know where you're getting the idea it's not a conference. Here's a link to a photo set from Foo Camp 2010, where the incident occurred: https://www.flickr.com/photos/deanpu…

True enough. I'm glad the world's 1.1 billion Catholics didn't hold a grudge.

"Many, many people" is an understatement.

Regarding your blog entry, I don't think it's instructive to compare the way adults respond to an extremely blunt spoken person to your child being bullied. Stallman's an adult who…

I thought that recess part was weird too. Bronx Science had recess? There were seven future Nobel Prize-winning physicists pondering the universe on those teeter totters.

Richard Stallman is one of my heroes in tech. He's a deeply fascinating and amazingly obstinate thinker who should be Walter Isaacson's next book project. But does he really need a…

That wasn't Swartz. The late[1] Mark Pilgrim wrote the Winer Watcher software. 1: Late as in dead from the Internet since 10/4/2011, not dead as in life.

That would be a neat trick, since RSS was created at Netscape a full year before Winer got involved. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-history Over time, the number of Internet technolog…

Dave Winer's feeling butthurt about the bad press he got in 2004 over abruptly taking 3,000 blogs offline at his free hosting site Weblogs.Com without giving those users any notice…