Larry’s Log

I liked Atom just fine but, geewhiz, name the damned thing something, already. This is rocking on way too long.

Dan has set Flutterby up to serve up Industrial Strength Syndication. Oh, he’s still doing RSS 0.91 and 2.0 but now he’s stepped up with a tried and true syndication method, NNTP.

The copyright on the spec for RSS 2.0 has been transferred from Userland Software to Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. There has also been a committee of three established, made up of Jon Udell, Brent Simmons and Dave Winer, to promote and answer questions regarding the spec. This is good […]

Via Mark Paschal, Adam Curry shows us that he has more bucks than brains.
Or maybe it’s me the one who’s clueless. I don’t see how the (not)Echo project stands to damage Mr. Curry in the least bit. RSS 2.0 will continue to be supported by aggregators for the foreseeable future. Even if it wasn’t, changing […]

Dave Winer: RSS 2.0 is cool because it’s all specified in one place, written in simple non-technical English that your VP-Business Development could probably understand.
RSS 2.0 is cool. It is great that it’s all specified in one place. The fact that it is written in simple non-technical English is part of the problem with it, […]

I just ran my necho 0.1 feed through the Userland RSS Validator and it validated. What better endorsement for necho than this?

Yet another syndication format, necho 0.1, has been introduced by Sam Ruby and gang. Sam offered a preliminary spec for the format and others are releasing feeds in this format so I’m following suit. My necho 0.1 file can be found in my list of syndication feeds there on the right.

Don Box asked for it. Sam Ruby complied and then it seems like an avalanche of support suddenly appeared. Oh, well, Blosxom makes it trivial to add so Larry’s Log is now available in CDF.