RssCloud, WordPress. FeedLand, and Dave Winer
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RssCloud, WordPress. FeedLand, and Dave Winer
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#2My summary of the recent work in the rssCloud arena
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#3why seems everybody to ignore Atom (RFC4287)? Is it to follow iTunes' innovation leadership in doing so? I'd be curious.
Re: RssCloud, WordPress. FeedLand, and Dave Winer
#4why seems everybody to ignore Atom (RFC4287)? Is it to follow iTunes' innovation leadership in doing so? I'd be curious.
Many years ago I switched to Atom because the RSS spec was ambiguous with regards to which fields could contain entity-encoded HTML.
Anyone know if that issue with RSS ever got resolved?
Re: RssCloud, WordPress. FeedLand, and Dave Winer
#5How this relates to WebSub (previously known as PubSubHubbub)? https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/
Re: RssCloud, WordPress. FeedLand, and Dave Winer
#6why seems everybody to ignore Atom (RFC4287)? Is it to follow iTunes' innovation leadership in doing so? I'd be curious.
Many years ago I switched to Atom because the RSS spec was ambiguous with regards to which fields could contain entity-encoded HTML. Anyone know if that issue with RSS ever got resolved?
There are some recommendations here which I've tried to follow when I've worked with RSS: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile
They are from 2007, so you might have seen them already.
Re: RssCloud, WordPress. FeedLand, and Dave Winer
#7why seems everybody to ignore Atom (RFC4287)? Is it to follow iTunes' innovation leadership in doing so? I'd be curious.
I was wondering the same. At some point it appeared atom was going to take over the feed space, but when I started blogging again last year it appeared we had more or less standardized again on RSS 2.
I have no idea why or what happened.
Re: RssCloud, WordPress. FeedLand, and Dave Winer
#8why seems everybody to ignore Atom (RFC4287)? Is it to follow iTunes' innovation leadership in doing so? I'd be curious.
I was wondering the same. At some point it appeared atom was going to take over the feed space, but when I started blogging again last year it appeared we had more or less standardized again on RSS 2. I have no idea why or what happened.
> […] but when I started blogging again last year it appeared we had more or less standardized again on RSS 2.
Per Gandhi, be the change you wish to see in the world: only provide Atom. :)
Re: RssCloud, WordPress. FeedLand, and Dave Winer
#9why seems everybody to ignore Atom (RFC4287)? Is it to follow iTunes' innovation leadership in doing so? I'd be curious.
Many years ago I switched to Atom because the RSS spec was ambiguous with regards to which fields could contain entity-encoded HTML. Anyone know if that issue with RSS ever got resolved?
The worst use of the tag ever was the discussion held in the early days of RSS about escaping HTML in titles, whose attention-grabbing title went something like this: "Hey, what happens when you put a tag in the title???!!!"
The content of that notorious discussion went on and off and on and off for weeks, giving all the netizens of the RSS syndication community blogosphere terrible headaches, with people's entire blogs disappearing and reappearing every second, until it finally reached a flashing point, when Dave Winer humbly conceded that it wasn't the user's fault for being an idiot, and maybe just maybe there was tiny teeny little design flaw in RSS, and it wasn't actually such a great idea to allow HTML tags in RSS titles.
Re: RssCloud, WordPress. FeedLand, and Dave Winer
#10Interesting comments about Dave Winer in the article.
I first became aware of him in the last year or two via a mention here on HN. Since then, I have been receiving and reading his daily blog post via email. (He claims his blog has been running longer than any other in existence, could be true). They guy is clearly smart and hard working, and has lots of ideas, many of which seem good. What he shares about his personal life is also interesting, I could imagine being friends with him if we were in close proximity.
However I also get the sense sometimes that he is a "legend in his own mind", to the detriment of the very technical causes he is promoting. He is fixated on writing tools such as "outliners" (MS Excel and Word have all the outlining features I have ever needed, which isn't very often), and whether or not RSS items need to have titles. The things he agonizes over are, I think, just background noise for most users, and his illustrious history in a niche area of Apple desktop computing decades ago doesn't really buy him anything in today's marketplace, to his (unstated) frustration.