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Dienstag, 12. August 2003 |
| RSS: Chris Pirillo, owner of Lockergnome makes the point, once again, that RSS will replace email as the way publishers will deliver content that their readers want to read. He's the man. He had, at one point, 200,000 subscribers to his email newsletters. I'm sure he'll have more than that to his RSS feeds pretty soon. [The Scobleizer Weblog] 9:03:13 PM  comment [] trackback [] |
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| Blogs: Another Tool in the Security Pro's Toolkit (Part Two) In my last column, I introduced you to blogging and blogs, and some of the issues that security professionals should consider before starting their own blogs. In this column we continue the discussion, and focus on blogs that specialize in security. [Scott Granneman: SecurityFocus] 6:32:55 PM comment [] trackback [] |
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| Great piece by Tim Bray that explains how designers should use XML. He describes the Worse Is Better school of XML format design. The names we use for elements are the worst-possible names, but they allow our software to interoperate. Namespaces create elements with names with colons in them. I bet Tim agrees that funky feeds, even if they're valid RSS, hurt interop. So much of this is obvious, yet we spend years arguing about it. [Scripting News] 5:29:46 PM comment [] trackback [] |
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| Name the new syndication format BikeShed The expression bike shed discussion, which comes from a FreeBSD mailing list post by Poul-Henning Kamp, describes the experience of being bogged down by interminable debate on a subject where everyone feels comfortable in their expertise -- such as the building of a bike shed. It also can be stated as a law:
Looking at the naming effort for the new syndication and weblogging format briefly known as Pie, Echo, and Atom, perhaps it should be dubbed BikeShed (via RC3.org). [Workbench]5:17:45 PM comment [] trackback [] |
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| An RSS/RDF epiphany Some fascinating conversations have been weaving their way through blogspace and email in the last few days. As a result, I think I've reached a new understanding of the seemingly endless debate about whether and how to use RDF (Resource Description Framework) and RSS together. I mentioned Dan Brickley's comments the other day. He expands on his remarks over on Shelley Powers' blog: ... [Jon's Radio] 5:15:08 PM comment [] trackback [] |
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