After looking over the current draft of the Atom spec, I think they're definitely on the right track splitting the file format spec from the API spec. In RSS 2.0, the cloud interface is specified within the same document as the file format. While I almost agree that 2.0 is good enough to be frozen...
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One thing that surprises me about the RSS 2.0 specification is that, while there is an optional "image" element for the channel, complete with subelements for URL, title, link, width, height, and description, there is no image element for items. Instead, items have an "enclosure" subelement, with attributes for URL, length and mime type. While...
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If we begin from "info bite" and "info bite list", next we get "info bite reader", which abbreviates to "info biter", and finally ends up as a "biter" in common speech (like "world wide web browser", "web browser" and "browser"). "Info bite list" will probably end up shortened to "bite list".

So, what does "bite...
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As a developer of RSS tools, RSS aficionado, and man with an opinion or two, I suppose it's appropriate that I should have a blog about RSS. I named this blog "Info Bite" after one of my entries in Amy Gahran's contest to pick a colloquial name for RSS.

So, here's my campaign speech for...
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Reading the tech news today, I just couldn't help but post something here to point out that I despise Microsoft and whoever it was in the government that decided they were going to be allowed to continue with business as usual after going through so much trouble with the anti-trust lawsuit. I also suspect that...
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Watching 60 Minutes with my wife tonight, we were "amused" at the story of how Jessica Lynch became famous by getting knocked cold in a car wreck and then getting rescued, while the soldier who saved the lives of the group that was captured that day by singlehandledly picking off 7 people, one by one,...
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