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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.