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Thursday, September 11, 2003 
Brent Simmons picks up on the RSS discussion.  Brent, the author of NetNewsWire, has picked up the conversation on RRS, link and guid on his site. I'd suggest anyone who has any thoughts post them there as opposed to here, as he will undoubtably garner more traffic and comments from knowledgeable users and developers than I will.
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Radio RSS Followup I'm starting to get a better grip on Rob's problems with Radio generated RSS, but it is definitely not due to funkyness in the feed. I looked at my own Radio feed in NetNewsWire, and checked out the URLs linked in the headline. They point to the story that I linked to on his site. OK, for me that is expected behavior.

His point is valid, however. While I don't care about it for this site, webloggers may want their RSS feeds to drive traffic to the blogs. The only way for them to do this would be to put the permalink URL in the link element, as MNJ and apparently a lot of other sites Rob reads do. Should the weblogger be able to determing whether link or guid is used as the headline link in aggregators? Should both be linked somehow? I don't know, would prefer to hear from Dave, Brent and other aggregator developers. I would find it hard to believe that this issue hasn't been discussed.

I also checked out Mark Pilgrim's RSS feed in NNW; his lacks link elements, and has only guid. NNW uses the guid in the headline link, so NNW's behavior seems to be use the link, in its absence, use the guid element. Not sure if it's more complicated than that, but that's my observation.
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Where Were You? It seems that "where were you when the twin towers fell?" may be the defining question for this generation, as the Kennedy assassination was for my parents, and the Challenger explosion was for my generation (in my opinion). I was at home, getting ready for work, and as is my habit, checking out Scripting News. We don't watch TV in the morning, so that was where I first learned about the attack. Looking back at that day's reporting gives me the same sick-to-my-stomach feeling I had that morning. Our whole family just stayed home, watched, and talked all day.
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