One of the problems with SPAM is that you have to spend so much time downloading and deleting it. Another problem is that people you send email to do too. Your legitimate message may get lost in the deluge. How do you avoid the problem? One way is to offer people to whom you send...
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The SOS Band may not have been thinking about web design when they recorded "Take Your Time (Do It Right)", but that doesn't mean we can't apply their words to our craft. "Baby we can do it, take the time, do it right." If you build your website right the first time, you'll reap the...
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Sometimes participating in the AtomPub Working Group feels like being in an atom smasher. The latest topic to be rehashed, thrashed to bits, and perhaps soon to be slashed is the mighty link. We're not quite so dumb that we don't know what a link is, but we seem to be having an extraordinarily difficult...
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I've just posted an article titled SEO: Using RSS to increase relevance and maximize freshness, outlining how to display newsfeeds on a webpage, and optimize their display for SEO purposes. Details include: using free software to display newsfeeds, using semantic markup to emphasize keywords, and a technique for avoiding giving away PageRank.

Support for the Atom format is growing, but it's certainly not as extensive as support for RSS. Because of this, it is sometimes useful to be able to convert Atom feeds to RSS. If, for example, you are using CaRP to display RSS feeds on your website, and you find an Atom feed you'd like...
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Sometimes, participation in the AtomPub Working Group can be awfully tedious. The discussion of some topics just seems to go on and on and on and on... While feeling the pain the other day, and started making a list of ineffective discussion methods that lead to these protracted discussions. I've augmented it with other communication...
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A number of blogging, feed reading, and other tools have implemented support for Atom already, although we haven't yet generated an official standard version. Most implementations appear to be using version 0.3. While some have responded with excitement to the growth of Atom even before the creation of an official specification, the Working Group's mailing...
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Does it matter whether Atom IDs are URIs or simple strings? Does it matter whether the creation date of Atom feed entries is published? How about the last modification date? Does it matter whether all kinds of links go into the a "link" element, or into various elements of different names? Interestingly enough, after intense...
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The Atom API will specify an open standard for editing blogs, Atom feeds, and other such resources. Any program or device will then be able to interact with any Atom server software that supports the API. As long as it meets the minimum technical requirements, that is. In the past, we planned to build in...
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You may be shocked to learn that not all feed reading and feed producing software adheres strictly to the RSS and Atom specifications, nor to the recommended practices for the use of them. Yeah, right. I doubt that comes as a surprise to any of you. Perhaps the best way to convince software vendors to...
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