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 […]
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 […]
A response to Dan Gillmor
April 10, 2003
Dan Gillmor is writing a book about journalism and blogging and asked people to help him with it. I have just sent an email on the introduction and figured it might be useful to other people interested in this subject. So here it is: You are hitting on the right points but there may be a need here for […]
Suggestions for RSS .92 spec
October 12, 2000
I’d like to suggest a few optional additions to the specification. Here are some ideas I’d like to throw around for discussion: At the item level : This would allow us to specify a particular date for an item. I think it would be nice for those of us who have several days’ worth of content in their RDF […]
