An issue has arisen in the Atom working group that I wouldn't have thought we'd need to discuss: who can add elements to the Atom namespace? Technically, the namespace spec doesn't speak to this issue, but the spirit of it seems plenty clear to me. Should the Atom spec spell the answer out explicitly? Given...
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Chordata, my directory of RSS and Atom feeds has been growing quickly, and is soon to see some changes that should make it grow a lot faster. In preparation for that growth, I decided yesterday that it's about time to give it a URL that's more memorable and independent than "chordata.geckotribe.com". Unfortunately, "chordata.com" was alread...
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Sometimes having a lot of people working on Atom is great, because we get a much wider variety of experience and insight than a smaller group would have available to it. But all too often, it feels like trying to get the US government to move--too many checks and balances keep the status quo entrenched,...
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The New York Times Company Investor Relations: "NYTimes.com's RSS feeds generated 5.9 million pageviews on the site in March, which represents a 342% increase year over year and a 39% increase from February's 4.3 million pageviews. The sections that were most popular among RSS feeds included: Washington and Business. The feeds have been available since...
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Google's AdSense ads have started showing up in RSS feeds from a few different publishers. At present, they're just testing the concept, so not many publishers are able to participate, but it sounds like the program will be expanding soon. This will likely lead to more feeds carrying full content, rather than just summaries or...
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Macworld: Feature: Surfing with Safari, Tiger-Style discusses the new RSS and Atom handling features in Apple's Safari web browser. Among other new features, Safari 2.0 enables you to bookmark keyword searches within feeds. It sounds like this release will help raise awareness of RSS and Atom feeds, but it may not yet be feature rich...
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One needn't assume from the title of this post that I'm unhappy with Atom. For the most part, I think the specification is good. But if it were up to me, a few things would be different. That's probably true for everyone in the Working Group, and we probably all have different gripes. Here's my...
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As the details of the Atom format are tuned in preparation for publishing the 1.0 version of the specification, a question that has been touched on before has been raised again: should feeds be required to link to an alternative representation of their data, ie. must each feed carry the same content as an associated...
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When someone publishes an RSS or Atom feed, what are they expecting people to do with it? View it in their feed reader? Display it on their website? Aggregate it with other feeds and republish the results in a new feed? Display an aggregated feed on their website? Some publishers include comments in their feeds...
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Barring the discovery of anything that simply doesn't work, only editorial changes will be made to the latest draft of the Atom specification before it is submitted for review by the entire IETF. One thing that was added to the last draft that might raise a few eyebrows is the requirement for a wrapper <div>...
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