I just launched a new service on Chordata called "Top Feeds" that generates RSS feeds from the content of the top feeds in each category on the site. Go to any category and click the subscription button near the upper-right corner of the page to subscribe. As the top feeds in a category change, you'...
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CaRP 4.0 has been released, and until Saturday, is available at an introductory discount price. Click here for details on what's in this update, and here to get your copy.

I've got some good news and some bad news.

The good news: CaRP version 4.0 is finally ready for release.

The bad news: I'm going to be out of town for a week and won't be able to release it before then, so you'll have to wait till the 26th or so to get your...
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You know that list of "update services" you configured your blog software to ping whenever you create a new post? If you copied it from the WordPress website (or any of a number of other sites on the web that have the same list) recently, you've got the wrong list.

When I say you've got...
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John Reese announced a new service today that concerned me a little...because it's very similar to a project I've been working on for a few months. It looks like the future of link exchanges is the exchange of links and content. Here's an overview of what I've been working on:

Members of my service (the...
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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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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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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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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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