phil ringnalda

A modest proposal to solve the Atom Problem: homicide.

A little gentle fisking of XML.com’s not-well-formed Atom feed, and a question: who’s actually in charge of Meerkat these days?

When I try to do something with syndication, and mess it up, it’s no real surprise. When Dan Bricklin does, it’s a sign that we’ve either made it too complicated, or not done a good enough job documenting things, or both. Probably both.

Now that the Syndication Wars have caught the attention of the mainstreamish press, it’s clearly time to move on to something newer, and this time, something interesting and useful. Up next: twisting aggregators and feeds around so you can skim through far more feeds, and effortlessly republish the interesting stuff in a set of categorized feeds. Yes, Dave, I know I want to reinvent MUOTD.

Never read professional journalists writing about thing you actually know. I’ll never be able to take New Scientist seriously again.

I’m getting a bit tired of seeing developers break things that are working just fine, just to push their new idea.

A lovely Moz and Firefox extension to simplify subscribing to feeds in Bloglines, and very handy links to look up references to the current page or a link in the page.

The real problem with RFC822 dates in Movable Type? It’s not obvious that you should want a date produced in a language not your own.

Making 6520 requests a day from one IP seems a bit much, especially since exactly half of them are for /favicon.ico. Not the sort of thing that scales to even a few hundred subscribers. So, why’s it requesting every single individual entry plus comments feed going back to last August, every thirty minutes?

RSS Bandit’s syncing of read item history across machines is almost ready to deploy. Kudos!