There has been some weblog rumbling about calendar formats. It is one of the things that I've been thinking about lately, although I've been less intersted in the implementation levels as of this moment.
In the past, many of our projects have attempted to recreate a shared calendar. The problem with a shared calendar, is that most people have a different favorite program or method - be it Outlook, iCal, Yahoo, MSN and Franklin-Covey (web and software) applications to the paper based Day Timer, Franklin Planner, and sticky notes.
Let's face it... it is really difficult to convince anyone to change the way they work.
I've found that people are really asking for a method to share events, not a new calendar.
 This is why an implementation through stanards is important. Share events without obstacles.
However, we've not only got to give parsable text to be sucked up by calendaring applications, but also parsers that translate to something readable.
I want an XML RSS Calendar hyperlink (to the data / file), but also have the data translated into a human readable format in the weblog post. See the image to the right....
What do you think?
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6:52:37 PM 
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