Archive for July, 2006

More on RSS and Atom
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

Responding to my post on RSS and Atom, Robert Scoble writes, “where’s the Atom publishing tool and aggregator that demonstrates Atom’s superiority?”

And you know what? Scoble is absolutely right to ask that. Even more so when he says that “users don’t care about specs, or arguments about formats.”

The truth is, until we create [...]

On RSS and Atom
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

RSS is great. No, I’ll go further than that. RSS, as a representation of an idea, is perhaps the single most influential cultural shift of the post-2001 technical and business community. RSS is the embodiment of the notion of sharing and syndication. Businesses will do well the heed the lessons being [...]