Yesterday was the deadline for those of us in the United States to file our tax returns for last year. As I looked at that date, April 15, on my blog, I had an idea. An idea of April Fools magnitude. Rather than filing a tax return every year, we could just put our tax...
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Bayesian filtering for prioritizing digest reading?
by ZetaGecko | Atom/RSS
A few days ago I read that someone is integrating Bayesian filtering into a newsfeed aggregator (sorry, I can't find the reference). Last month, I wrote about the difficulty of finding quality newsfeeds and proposed some ideas for creating a better newsfeed directory (and then built a newsfeed directory based on those ideas). Bayesian filtering...
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Digest formats
by ZetaGecko | Atom/RSS
A few days ago, I mentioned in passing the idea of referring to RSS, Atom, Info Bite and such as "digest formats". The idea has grown on me.
What does "digest" mean? A few relevant definitions include: "a periodical that summarizes the news", "something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)", "make...
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Why you SHOULD offer a newsfeed
by ZetaGecko | Atom/RSS
Last week, I wrote a post titled "Why you shouldn't offer a newsfeed" that garnered a bit of attention. The entire post was written from the point of view of someone opposed to and annoyed by newsfeeds as a way of introducing the kinds of objections people might raise. It seems I should have included...
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Occupation: Web Feed Designer
by ZetaGecko | Atom/RSS
In the beginning, web pages were text-only. They had a few options for styling, but nothing too fancy. Then came images, tables, Flash, Java, JavaScript, CSS, and oh, let's not forget everyone's favorite: the blink tag! Thus arose the occupation "web designer", the one who specialized in making web pages look great in every version...
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Why you shouldn’t offer a newsfeed
by ZetaGecko | Atom/RSS
Are you sick and tired of people telling you to publish a newsfeed? I sure am. So today, I'm going to give you a break and discuss why you shouldn't publish a newsfeed. Feel free to use these arguments to tell people to shut up and mind their own business.
1) It's too much trouble...
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A few days ago, Amy Gahran posted on her Contentious Weblog (no, I don't mean it's an unfriendly weblog, that's the blog's title) a response to Google's sending a cease-and-desist to someone who'd been providing a service to convert Google News searches to RSS. As much as I'd love to see RSS feeds of Google...
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Profiles for RSS, Atom, Info Bite
by ZetaGecko | Atom/RSS
Last year, there was some discussion of creating a profile for RSS to standardize its usage without changing the specification. From what I can tell, no profile was ever adopted--at least not by more than a few people. Had a profile been widely adopted, Atom would likely have received far less support.
No profile was...
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Chordata newsfeed directory debuts
by ZetaGecko | Atom/RSS, Gecko Tribe
A week ago, I wrote a little about the challenge of finding quality newsfeeds. As I wrote, I got an idea for a new newsfeed directory that would make that easier. Since then, I've dropped most of my other work, copied a bunch of code from my existing sites, twisted and bullied it and written...
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Required elements in feeds
by ZetaGecko | Atom/RSS
Each format: RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom, Info Bite , etc. requires a certain set of elements and attributes. Why are certain elements required? Which should be required?
Some elements are required so that client and aggregator software can depend on being able to do certain things with feeds. For example, an Atom feed is...
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