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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.
First, GData [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]