including html within an rss feed.
"it is a matter of great debate as to whether the <description> element within rss 0.92, 2.0 and 1.0 may contain html. in my opinion, it should not. this is for both a practical and a philosophical reason. practically speaking, including html markup requires the client software to have the ability to parse or filter it. whilst this is fine with many desktop agents, it is restricting for developers looking for other uses of the data. this brings us onto the philosophical aspect. rss’s second use, after providing headlines and content to desktop readers and sites, is to provide indexable metadata. by combining presentation and content, by including html markup within the <description> element, we start to risk breaking this feature." – ben hammersley, "content syndication with rss".
i've rarely seen such a dismembered group like the rss community.
now for the first time i am reading the rss faq hoping for the thread.
also hoping for some words to come into my mind to explain this thang to the innocent user who does not care about acronyms, version numbers and namespaces at all...
"years have passed and all the queen bee's drones are dying." – roy ayers, "we live in brooklyn, baby".
why antville.org is running on a server called adele. yet.
even some more insight one might find at motz's blog.
it's a pity, though, that not a real adele goldberg was available to assist the antville group individuals; to focus at pro- rather than regress. the machine is not even strong enough to handle the load.
this is not meant to sound bitter. it is meant to be this way. i think each one could have seen it come. and it was not really that tragic, anyway. rather a close, a very close shave. moreover, this time i was only watching.
this is what open source is all about in these days, in these latitudes. the queens and the drones. but without all the structural bullshitting around it. just like new economy does not need the workers' council. or so they thought.
maybe the best idea is to choose the next names more deliberately. definitions always are a good starting point. if not the most important one. and each one should learn from his and her burns.
still diggin' i might quote.
obviously, rss is becoming some kind of xml pandaemonium... people are adding tags, version numbers and whatever they like to rss formats which somehow appear as standard but on the other hand are just one lonely member of a tiny crowd.
while some try to improve the quality of rss feeds, some others do incomprehensible (however amusing) things. mark pilgrim's feed is really entertaining to read but honestly, i don't get the meaning of a guid element which does not want to be a permalink.
could anyone please unite?
i bet olga (or at least her flat-mate) would also love this gallery (found via henso).
it's about that time. high time.
judith holofernes is definitely a wicked stage name. one might really be tempted to go and see her despite the antithetic band name...
update: obviously, campcatatonia got some affinity to judith, too.
i've got a lack of media expertise, i need more media expertise!
and i should read the sexblog more often. interesting stories there, e.g. "die frankfurter rundschau über antville".
i should read more, generally. more and more, reading becomes an avantgardistic act.
betablogger: "der stoppelbärtige maurice chevalier der heimischen innenpolitik ließ leicht vergessen, dass man sich grundsätzlich politisch keine gedanken mehr machte – zumindest keine, die man nach außen kommunizierte. grün, das war ein lebensstil geworden. und genau das wird den grünen halt jetzt schneller zum problem..."
anyway, why should someone bother to save the austrian green party? like a tail, every story deserves its end.
medianet.at: "erster österreichischer weblog-anbieter gestartet [...] die wiener new-media-agentur knallgrau, bringt mit 'twoday' weblogs nach österreich".
finally! the first austrian weblog provider! that's so great! thank you, thank you, thank you! (wiping off a tear of joy from his eye's corner.)