Standards as social contracts
June 7, 2006
Looking at the efforts Dave Winer is undertaking in terms of getting OPML to become yet another standard, I’ve been thinking about how formats get adopted. The key insight I came up with is that standards are actually a form of social contract and increasingly, data formats is following the same path. Looking at the history In order […]
On the WordPress move
May 29, 2006
After many years of using my own blog software, something I had written myself and tended to over the years, I finally threw the towel in and decided to upgrade. Here are a few things that I learned in the process. Making the Decision The first, and probably toughest, part of this migration was to actually make the jump. […]
RSS and Media: Can’t we all just get along?
June 29, 2005
I keep trying to work on an entry to close the loop on the search engine and links research but RSS news is getting in the way. Last week, it was Microsoft’s welcome endorsement and a new set of extensions and this week, it’s Apple and its announcement of a new specification to add more data to […]
Microsoft Loves RSS
June 23, 2005
The blogoshpere is buzzing about Microsoft’s announced support for RSS. Here’s a quick history of how they got there, and the good and bad on what they are adding to the standard. How we got there? Microsoft is not really a new player in the syndication space. With the release of Internet Explorer 4.0, in 1997, the Redmond […]
RSS .91 to 1.0 using ASP
December 14, 2000
What is RSSup? RSSup is an ASP script that allows webmaster who already generate an RSS .91 feed for their site to dynamically create an RSS 1.0 feed. Using the Microsoft XML parser (supplied with IE 5) on the server side, you can now move to RSS 1.0 without having to worry about recoding your channel. […]
RSS Manipulation in ASP
December 17, 1999
There is currently no ASP parser for RSS so here’s how to do it.
