I switched my Blogger account to the beta of the new version today, republished one of my feeds, checked it to make sure it was in Atom "1.0" format (yeah!), validated it at feedvalidator.org, and to my surprise, got this warning: "Self reference doesn't match document location". I checked the feed, and sure enough, the...
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Yesterday, in response to an article by Marc Orchant that I read in More Space: Nine Antidotes to Complacency in Business, I overhauled my email filing structure. Most of the old structure is still there (maybe when I get a faster computer, I'll be satisfied to use search tools rather than filing to find messages,...
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Today, along with a minor CaRP update, I sent out a few hints at what's coming in a major CaRP update I hope to release next month. Here are some bullet points from today's email:

I'm hoping to implement a new configuration method that doesn't require all of the CarpConf calls. A change this bi...
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Last year, I posted a few times regarding short-lived feeds and the problems caused by feed readers that continue to poll them long after they've gone quiet. The issue came up again on Tim Bray's blog 3 days ago after he posted about his experience with enabling comments on his blog.

I just discovered Sam...
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An issue that always seems to arise when adding an element (whether core or extension) to a feed format is whether the element appearing at the feed level applies to the entries. The reason to want it to apply is obvious--avoiding having to repeat identical data over and over in each entry. But allowing inheritance...
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Blogger is finally gearing up to flip the switch from Atom 0.3 to Atom 1.0. Among the changes currently being rolled out to a limited number of Blogger users is a switch to Atom 1.0 as the default feed format. RSS 2.0 will also be available. Once the new system gets rolled out to all...
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Mark Pilgrim, Tim Bray and others are blogging recently about switching away from the Macintosh. I've been thinking of replacing my old G4, so information about Mac alternatives is of particular interest to me right now. But after reading what they've written and investigating the alternatives a little, I doubt that I'll be switching any...
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I've noticed over the last few days that one of my sites has been getting hundreds of hits a day from people searching for "katharine mcphee yellow dress". I don't have a site about American Idol, and I've never even typed the words "katharine mcphee" (and the first time I'd even copied and pasted the...
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I've just set up a 7 day email mini-course, 7 ways to turn RSS into R$$. When you register, you also get a free download of CaRP Free, an RSS to HTML converter for your website, and if you stay on the mailing list, updated versions will be sent to you as they're released.

This...
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The IETF Atom Working Group has been discussing a new Atom extension for creating threaded discussions between blog. The biggest bone of contention has been two new attributes for the link element which indicate the number of comments in a comments feed and the last time the comments feed was updated. There are two objections...
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