NotesEverybody sing: It's the end of the feeeeeeds as we know them! And I feel fine! (Now can we get serious about conditional HTTP, varied polling times, and Atom-over-Jabber?)Unfurl
NotesClever: Instead of the feed at the published URL, serve up a 301 redirect to the real feed tagged with a generated unique ID. The incoming aggregator should switch to the new ID-tagged URL and happily continue on using it.Unfurl
Notes"This mess will clear up if you take that troublemaker there — What's your name? You, with the goatee — out and shoot him. Do it now." Not naming names, but if the shoe fits... Heh, heh.Unfurl
Notes"Atom says: Given everything else is in flux, here's our one fixed point. The post. The metadata of the post. The relationships between posts. That's it." This is one of the best explanations of Atom and what I love about it I've ever seen.Unfurl
Notes"...CNet’s willingness to set the record straight without any muss or fuss pleases me, and makes me respect the company all the more for its efforts."Unfurl
Notes"I took the time to compare the Atom elements with their DC equivalents and found something quite interesting: when you remove the overlap with Dublin Core what's left is pure syndication." Good questions here.Unfurl
Notes"It handles Atom feeds, CDF, and the nine different versions of RSS." You can sneer and FUD all you like at Mark Pilgrim's rants on RSS, but he has working code to show for it. (Backed by almost 2000 unit test cases!)Unfurl
Notes"f those Atom people were really smart, they'd publish a whole catalogue of stylesheets: Atom-to-RSS0.92, Atom-to-RSS1.0, Atom-to-RSS2.0, Atom-to-WordprocessingML ... and probably offer a free transformation utility too."Unfurl