Comments on: The woes of an RSS hacker http://getanewbrowser.com/2007/03/the-woes-of-an-rss-hacker/ analyzing the business and technology of the web Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:13:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Christi at small.town.fun. http://getanewbrowser.com/2007/03/the-woes-of-an-rss-hacker/#comment-24640 Christi at small.town.fun. Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:47:40 +0000 http://getanewbrowser.com/2007/03/the-woes-of-an-rss-hacker/#comment-24640 I took a look again today and I'm SO impressed. I know some days you have to wonder why you're at it. After looking at the test, I realized my posts might need to be a little shorter. I use Bloglines at home, so it never occurred to me that you'd upload full content. You worry about dead feeds and I'll try to reign in my content. Thanks again! You're definitely doing something cool, here. I took a look again today and I’m SO impressed. I know some days you have to wonder why you’re at it. After looking at the test, I realized my posts might need to be a little shorter. I use Bloglines at home, so it never occurred to me that you’d upload full content. You worry about dead feeds and I’ll try to reign in my content. Thanks again! You’re definitely doing something cool, here.

]]> By: Christi at small.town.fun. http://getanewbrowser.com/2007/03/the-woes-of-an-rss-hacker/#comment-24245 Christi at small.town.fun. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:39:01 +0000 http://getanewbrowser.com/2007/03/the-woes-of-an-rss-hacker/#comment-24245 I can't thank you enough for this post. I depend on my feed to keep readers interested and a glitch can easily cause readers to drop off. Now I'm gonna subscribe to your blog - I appreciate the solid useful advice. I can’t thank you enough for this post. I depend on my feed to keep readers interested and a glitch can easily cause readers to drop off. Now I’m gonna subscribe to your blog - I appreciate the solid useful advice.

]]> By: Mark Woodman http://getanewbrowser.com/2007/03/the-woes-of-an-rss-hacker/#comment-23697 Mark Woodman Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:57:17 +0000 http://getanewbrowser.com/2007/03/the-woes-of-an-rss-hacker/#comment-23697 Andy, "These are things we all need to work on to help make the platform grow" I agree that valid feeds according to the RSS 2.0 spec are essential, including correctly-formatted dates as per the spec. Just this alone would cover a multitude of sins. As for content locations and duplicates, most of what you mention is perfectly okay according to the RSS 2.0 spec. I don't see a way that will ever change, since the spec cannot change. (Dave Winer has frozen it.) If you want more specificity about forms of content, or a standard way to avoid duplicates... RSS 2.0 isn't going to be a viable format. I recommend taking a look at the whitepaper mentioned in this article: http://inkblots.markwoodman.com/2006/09/22/spymasters-choose-atom-over-rss/ (The intelligence community in the US gov't decided to go with Atom for some of these very reasons.) I'm a big fan/user/producer of RSS, but if you really want things to change, it will have to change elsewhere. Andy,

“These are things we all need to work on to help make the platform grow”

I agree that valid feeds according to the RSS 2.0 spec are essential, including correctly-formatted dates as per the spec. Just this alone would cover a multitude of sins.

As for content locations and duplicates, most of what you mention is perfectly okay according to the RSS 2.0 spec. I don’t see a way that will ever change, since the spec cannot change. (Dave Winer has frozen it.)

If you want more specificity about forms of content, or a standard way to avoid duplicates… RSS 2.0 isn’t going to be a viable format.

I recommend taking a look at the whitepaper mentioned in this article:
http://inkblots.markwoodman.com/2006/09/22/spymasters-choose-atom-over-rss/

(The intelligence community in the US gov’t decided to go with Atom for some of these very reasons.)

I’m a big fan/user/producer of RSS, but if you really want things to change, it will have to change elsewhere.

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