I wrote this in response to Dave’s call for essays on his BloggerCon site. Wish I could be there, but I’m determined to get my MA done this semester, and can’t have any distractions. Well, this essay is a small one, but it’s less intrusive than flying from Hawai’i to Boston and back.
Brent Simmons picks up on the RSS discussion.
Brent, the author of NetNewsWire, has picked up the conversation on RRS, link and guid on his site. I’d suggest anyone who has any thoughts post them there as opposed to here, as he will undoubtably garner more traffic and comments from knowledgeable users and developers than I will.
Radio RSS Followup
I’m starting to get a better grip on Rob’s problems with Radio generated RSS, but it is definitely not due to funkyness in the feed. I looked at my own Radio feed in NetNewsWire, and checked out the URLs linked in the headline. They point to the story that I linked to on his site. OK, for me that is expected behavior. His point is valid, however. While I don’t care about it for this site, webloggers may want their RSS feeds to drive traffic to the blogs. The only way for them to do this would be to put…
Upon further observation…
I spent the better part of the past hour going through various RSS feeds. New York Times, Wired, Salon and other non-blog sites. They all use the link element to point to the item listed in the title element. As they are not blogs, they have no blog permalink, and therefore lacked the guid element (my assumption). Mark Pilgrim’s XML feed – his items lacked a link element. He only has guid elements, which contain (TADA!!) the permalink URLs for his weblog. Case closed? BTW, Rob, if you read this, I’m not trying to take shots or anything. For me…
Radio RSS Not Funky!
I got tired of saying “I don’t know enough about RSS.” They say a little knowledge is dangerous, so I’ll take a chance here. I just spent some time going through the RSS 2.0 spec (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss) as well as my own and other weblog feeds. This is from the RSS 2.0 spec regarding elements, and the examples that are given (element name – description – example): title – The title of the item – Venice Film Festival Tries to Quit Sinking link – The URL of the item – http://nytimes.com/2002/09/07/movies/07FEST.html Clearly, the link is supposed to point to the same…
Radio RSS Funky?
Is there something funky about the RSS that Radio generates? I have my own RU feed in my copy of NetNewsWire, and have noticed the behavior that is brought up on Mac Net Journal, but didn’t know what to make of it. Must dig into this…
Apple Computer History Weblog and my own contribution
Looking at this site made me realize that I’ve been a Mac user for about 17 years. Wow. It’s cool that their trying to get employees to document what it was like to work at Apple in those early years. They should have an area for users to talk about what it was like in those days. This would be my contribution… My first Mac was a Mac Plus, which I paid about $1,800 bucks for, and eventually got it to 4Meg of RAM for something like $400. My daughter was about 18 months old when I had this machine.…
Like Dave and probably the rest of the connected world, I’ve been getting murdered by the latest worms and viruses.
Like Dave and probably the rest of the connected world, I’ve been getting murdered by the latest worms and viruses. I’m a Mac user, but still getting my inbox bombarded, not only with spam but tons of reject messages which have me as the sender. Shit. You know who I’d vote for in a minute? A political candidate who supported the death penalty for virus writers. I’d accept castration at a bare minimum. I do have one fix for the Unix account on my ISPs server. They already installed SpamAssassin. While this was OK, it didn’t delete spam, just modified…
OK, so it didn’t work exactly like I thought
I’m going to have to look into this. The Hawaiian, which previously worked ok does not now. The Irish works either way, but the characters are not Unicode. Doesn’t really matter as the fada (diacritic over some of the vowels) is found in standard font sets. I’ll get back to this tonight.
Irish/Gaelic in Radio?
To answer a question on HomoLudens, I’m not sure if Radio will handle Irish/Gaelic languages, let’s try This line is Irish using 8 bit charaters: Ní foclóir iomlán é seo, ach tá súil againn go mbeidh sé úsáideach d’oifigigh atá ag iarraidh teacht go tapaidh ar fhocail agus ar abairtí a úsáidtear go rialta ina réimsí féin. This is the same line using (I think) Unicode. I’ll have to check out the source after this upstreams: Ní foclóir iomlán é seo, ach tá súil againn go mbeidh sé úsáideach d’oifigigh atá ag iarraidh teacht go tapaidh ar fhocail agus ar…