DeWitt Clinton

I’ve been thinking a little bit about the syndication formats for microblogs lately, and I’m wondering if we might all agree upon some very simple conventions to integrate the various providers. Nothing profound here, just some simple ideas about how to get an easy win with existing technologies. Taking FriendFeed as the best current example [...]

My friend Dare Obasanjo recently wrote about some of the differences that he perceived between the latest draft Atom Publishing Protocol specification and the GData protocol specifications. A few of his observations were correct, and a few were incorrect, so I thought it might help if I shared my understanding of GData’s relationship with APP. [...]

David Kane over at Eph Blog posed a question on how to create a feed that aggregates news sources on a particular topic. As he illustrates, a single news search engine alone limited insofar as it may not cover enough news sources. The comments to his post discuss a few possible ways to solve the [...]

I observed something interesting while migrating my servers last week. In the process of the migration I changed the domain of my blog from www.unto.net to <a href=””http://blog.unto.net/”>blog.unto.net. As a consequence, the permalink of each article also changed. To the average reader or visitor this change was transparent. First, my syndicated content feed is proxied [...]

Darren Chamberlain writes: I was going to post this as a comment to the Blogging In Flock post, but I see you’ve closed comments on that post. It looks like Elias Torres has implemented an APP server for WordPress. I haven’t tried it, but it looks interesting, and Elias usually makes good stuff. Thanks for [...]