"spotte nicht über kriminalromane! sie sind heutzutage das einzige mittel, vernünftige ideen unter die leute zu bringen." – friedrich glauser, "tee der drei alten damen".
"eins zwei drei vier fünf sechs sieben acht." – kraftwerk, "nummern".
probably really everything you might want to know about rss/rdf is contained in an extensive technology report at xml.coverpages.org.
btw. i came to the conclusion that you get even better results in finding out something about rss when using a search term like headline syndication. which is a much better definition for what it's all about, anyway.
bof!
dan gillmor: "google buys pyra - blogging goes big-time".
or: why google fucking loves weblogs.
statement of audience
i realize that nothing i say matters to anyone else on the entire planet. my opinions are useless and unfocused. i am an expert in nothing. i know nothing. i am confused about almost everything. i cannot, as an individual, ever possibly know everything, or even enough to make editorial commentary on the vast vast majority of things that exist in my world. this is a stupid document; it is meaningless drivel that i do not expect any of the several billion people on my planet to actually read. people who do read my rambling, incoherent dumbfuckery are probably just as confused as i am, if not moreso, as they are looking to my sorry ass for an opinion when they should be outside playing frisbee with their dog or screwing their life partner or getting a dog or getting a life partner. anyone who actually takes the time to read my bullshit probably deserves to ingest my fucked up and obviously mistaken opinions on whatever it is that i have written about. – why i fucking hate weblogs (found via spülmittelmut).
one can tell immediately that cascading style sheets didn't make web design a better but even worse place, instead, by only taking a cursory look at how people desperately tweak around just to make current browsers display the same font size.
however, some wicked and fresh css resources: the selectoracle translates stylesheets into plain english or spain language; peter paul koch's css 2 tests (also available for javascript); different meaning of font sizes with excellent, though not up-to-date browser screenshots for comparison.
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?