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Scott Andrew needs his relative URLs expanded in his RSS, and Alexei Kosut has the plugin to do it.

RSS levels the playing field, if you play by the rules.

There are only two proper referrers when you hit an RSS feed with an aggregator: a page of links to your subscriptions, which is a pretty useless referrer, and nothing. Here’s how to change to nothing in three popular RSS readers.

Autodiscovery of RSS feeds at blo.gs

The RSS validator is sporting a spiffy new SOAP interface with a WSDL file to make your life easy in Java, or C#, or probably any language you might want to use, as long as it’s not PHP. More grousing about SOAP and PHP than you could want to read, being added to every time […]

I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to finally see an article on RSS on a commercial site that doesn’t either make me cringe or drive me to explain to the author all his myriad mistakes. There’s nobody more deserving of filling in number 2. Congratulations, Mark. (Oops, that should have read another article […]

A possible solution to the problem of different names for categories: start from your TrackBack pings, get the category from the TB RDF, take that to the RSS feed, and get items in the same category. Twisty!

A new Blog Browser points out that I left my live RSS archives hidden away.

Ev: This relates to a post I made a while back challenging Dave’s argument that it’s not an aggregator unless it mixes the content sources up on a single page. Phil seems to agree (with Dave). Oops. I didn’t really quite mean to agree that you shouldn’t be allowed to use the word aggregator unless […]

Even though I can hear Sam muttering digital magpie in my ear, I still think there may be some reasons why Blog Browsers are more than just a shiny new toy for me to play with. We just have to figure out why. Here’s what has occurred to me so far: PalmBlogBrowser: when you find […]