Dave Winer: RSS

Sat, 25 Jan 2003 03:40:58 GMT

Here's a page that ranks RSS feeds by the amount of new bits they deliver to Radio users, both today and over time. I haven't looked at that page in a long time. Surprised more people aren't getting news from the NY Times and BBC. Perhaps that's because they deliver their news in spurts at the end of the day. Each spurt per user only counts for one. You score higher if you deliver news steadily.

Thu, 17 Oct 2002 06:39:17 GMT

Don Park posted a note about big binary objects as RSS items. I suggested he look into enclosures in RSS. If you have Radio running, there's a page of prefs for enclosures. The feature was introduced in RSS 0.92. Enclosures are powerful but brain-dead simple. Read up on them, there's a new distribution model, one that gets rid of the click-wait for large media objects. Adam Curry turned me on to the idea over deli food in NYC. It's brilliantly simple. Virtual bandwidth. (BTW, I got a note a few days ago that ESPN is using RSS enclosures in a new app. So the feature didn't go completely unnoticed. ";->") [Scripting News]

Yahoo Finance RSS Feeds

Tue, 24 Sep 2002 00:21:10 GMT

Jeremy Zawodny who works at Yahoo Finance offers an RSS 0.91 feed for every stock. It's a beta feature. Here's the feed for Microsoft and one for Marimba. Thanks to Jon Udell for the pointer.

Fri, 30 Aug 2002 18:41:50 GMT

As promised, here's the first draft of the RSS 0.94 spec. It's a consolidation of all the specs I've written over the last two years. A few new features, listed on the (new) change notes page. Please read the roadmap to see what comes after 0.94. I'm not looking for much feedback until next week, but of course if you like it, no need to wait to say that. ";->" [Scripting News]

Thu, 30 May 2002 22:28:41 GMT

Jon Udell's last column for BYTE, Personal RSS Aggregators, is rising through the ranks on Daypop. This is good to see. Unlike weblogs, aggregators don't leave much of a visible trail to follow.

Mon, 27 May 2002 21:33:49 GMT

This morning I did an initial pass on code to algorithmically generate a time-to-live element for a new RSS version of Scripting News. [Scripting News]

Mon, 21 Jan 2002 04:32:38 GMT

We released a set of changes that improve the generation of RSS in Radio 8. Includes support for the and elements in RSS 0.92; macros are now processed as feeds are built; a big speed bump; a bug fixed. The code also got a lot more maintainable.

Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:46:42 GMT

NewsIsFree supports publish-subscribe. "Now the excellent NewsIsFree network, spearheaded by Mike Krus, a gutsy Frenchman who's always up for something new, includes a element in their RSS feeds and if you subscribe to those feeds, and if you're not behind a firewall or NAT, you can get instant news from those sources, not just at the top of the hour."

Thu, 03 Jan 2002 20:57:48 GMT

Mark Pilgrim has been geeking around with Manila and RSS.

Thu, 03 Jan 2002 20:57:19 GMT

News.Com: Doubt cast over Web standard's ownership.

Sat, 10 Nov 2001 23:17:06 GMT

Hail Powazek. He's a designer who's discovering how great it can be to partner with a geek. Bravo.

Sun, 20 May 2001 01:01:20 GMT

Stapler is a "tool for Radio UserLand that creates RSS feeds from sources you select, scraped hourly (or every N hours, variable for each source) from HTML web sites."

Sun, 29 Apr 2001 18:05:17 GMT

Slashdot: Netscape Says No RSS 0.91 For You

Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:41:07 GMT

Today's Craig Burton tutorial is on channels in Radio. It's by far the best docs on our software. I hope everyone runs his latest tutorial, it's a Java window, he presses all the buttons and narrates. Craig talks very slowly and explains everything. His tutorials are eye-openers. [Scripting News]

Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:16:58 GMT

New RSS Feeds from Java Boutique. We're happy to announce the birth of two new RSS feeds from Java Boutique. Weighing in at 4.9K and growing, they are welcome additions to our growing family of internet.com newsfeeds. Take your choice between applets or articles. 0313

Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:49:07 GMT

Interview: Dave Winer on Radio Userland. We interview Dave Winer, founder of UserLand Software, about his newest creation, Radio Userland. Thirteen years in the making, Radio Userland puts an industrial strength Web server on your desktop. Designed to be extended by developers, Radio will also appeal to the masses with its news aggregator and weblog features. By Andy King. 0312

Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:48:25 GMT

Jeff Barr explains how he evangelizes RSS.

Fri, 09 Feb 2001 22:11:22 GMT

I spoke this morning with a Rights and Contracts manager at the New York Times, and she asked us to stop reading their XML newsfeeds, as described on this page. We have complied with their request.

Fri, 09 Feb 2001 18:05:23 GMT

WebTools: Creating an RSS Channel. "By any name, RSS means really simple syndication."

Sun, 04 Feb 2001 01:18:07 GMT

The work on RSS 0.92 continues. Today there's a new <category> element. We plan to use it at UserLand to link RSS with directories, but there are other uses for it, by people who know more about taxonomies. As usual the goal has been to retain simplicity while adding features to make new applications possible.

Fri, 02 Feb 2001 05:46:14 GMT

An early draft of the RSS 0.92 spec.

Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:04:36 GMT

Brent documented the new xml.rss verbs in Frontier 7. These verbs are the core of My.UserLand, so now it's easy to build your own RSS-based aggregator with Frontier.

Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:02:58 GMT

Jeff Barr started a Manila site to highlight XML newsfeeds he discovers. Jeff has the best collection. This is the biggest problem-opportunity in RSS space. Discovery can be overwhelming. Too many channels, too hard to find the good ones. We need curators and critics -- people who appreciate a good channel. Let's also learn what makes a channel good. What's your favorite and why? As the tools get better we'll be asking these kinds of questions.

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 01:00:03 GMT

Jeff Barr: Headline Viewer 0.95.

Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:00:02 GMT

Sometimes things work just like you wanted them to.

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:00:28 GMT

Two-Way-Web: Payloads for RSS. "When I started talking with Adam late last year, he wanted me to think about high quality video on the Internet, and I totally didn't want to hear about it."

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 04:00:40 GMT

Greg Pierce, working on Free-Conversant, is rendering RSS boxes.

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:00:08 GMT

Eric Kidd released XML-RPC for C/C++.

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 23:00:05 GMT

Examples of RSS files with <cloud> elements.

Sat, 06 Jan 2001 16:00:16 GMT

Two-Way-Web: SOAP meets RSS.

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:00:42 GMT

phpSyndication 0.0.3. Syndication PHP class.

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 19:00:19 GMT

DaveNet: Desktop Websites.

Tue, 02 Jan 2001 22:00:19 GMT

Update to viewRssBox macro, now if you specify a width of infinity, you get a RSS box without the box.

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 22:00:12 GMT

DW: mySubscriptions.opml contains the RSS channels I'm tuned into.

Sat, 30 Dec 2000 00:00:26 GMT

New Manila macro: viewRssBox, available on on all UserLand-hosted Manila sites, and on all Frontier installations that update. I used the viewRssBox macro to put a news box on the XML-RPC home page.

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:00:14 GMT

WebReference has updated RSSViewerApplet. "First and foremost there is better compatibility with the RSS 0.91 version upgrade from 0.9."

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 20:00:03 GMT

Heads-up, I'm working on new features for RSS that build on 0.91. Calling it 0.92. I am not doing this as part of a working group, or in collaboration with anyone else. I'm doing an app that requires more functionality than 0.91 provides. I think the enhancements will be useful for other developers. There's already been enough discussion, and a lot of wasted time. I just want to make software. We did RSS for a reason, and the reason didn't disappear. We need the functionality.