Dave Winer: RSS

We're taking a look at NewsML. Here's an example of a source file, and here's an HTML rendering of that content. [Scripting News] [Dave's Handsome Radio Blog]

Stapler is a "tool for Radio UserLand that creates RSS feeds from sources you select, scraped hourly (or every N hours, variable for each source) from HTML web sites."

Slashdot: Netscape Says No RSS 0.91 For You

Today's Craig Burton tutorial is on channels in Radio. It's by far the best docs on our software. I hope everyone runs his latest tutorial, it's a Java window, he presses all the buttons and narrates. Craig talks very slowly and explains everything. His tutorials are eye-openers. [Scripting News]

New RSS Feeds from Java Boutique. We're happy to announce the birth of two new RSS feeds from Java Boutique. Weighing in at 4.9K and growing, they are welcome additions to our growing family of internet.com newsfeeds. Take your choice between applets or articles. 0313

Interview: Dave Winer on Radio Userland. We interview Dave Winer, founder of UserLand Software, about his newest creation, Radio Userland. Thirteen years in the making, Radio Userland puts an industrial strength Web server on your desktop. Designed to be extended by developers, Radio will also appeal to the masses with its news aggregator and weblog features. By Andy King. 0312

Jeff Barr explains how he evangelizes RSS.

I spoke this morning with a Rights and Contracts manager at the New York Times, and she asked us to stop reading their XML newsfeeds, as described on this page. We have complied with their request.

WebTools: Creating an RSS Channel. "By any name, RSS means really simple syndication."

The work on RSS 0.92 continues. Today there's a new <category> element. We plan to use it at UserLand to link RSS with directories, but there are other uses for it, by people who know more about taxonomies. As usual the goal has been to retain simplicity while adding features to make new applications possible.

An early draft of the RSS 0.92 spec.

Brent documented the new xml.rss verbs in Frontier 7. These verbs are the core of My.UserLand, so now it's easy to build your own RSS-based aggregator with Frontier.

Jeff Barr started a Manila site to highlight XML newsfeeds he discovers. Jeff has the best collection. This is the biggest problem-opportunity in RSS space. Discovery can be overwhelming. Too many channels, too hard to find the good ones. We need curators and critics -- people who appreciate a good channel. Let's also learn what makes a channel good. What's your favorite and why? As the tools get better we'll be asking these kinds of questions.

Jeff Barr: Headline Viewer 0.95.

Sometimes things work just like you wanted them to.

Two-Way-Web: Payloads for RSS. "When I started talking with Adam late last year, he wanted me to think about high quality video on the Internet, and I totally didn't want to hear about it."

Greg Pierce, working on Free-Conversant, is rendering RSS boxes.

Eric Kidd released XML-RPC for C/C++.

Examples of RSS files with <cloud> elements.

Two-Way-Web: SOAP meets RSS.

phpSyndication 0.0.3. Syndication PHP class.

DaveNet: Desktop Websites.

Update to viewRssBox macro, now if you specify a width of infinity, you get a RSS box without the box.

DW: mySubscriptions.opml contains the RSS channels I'm tuned into.

New Manila macro: viewRssBox, available on on all UserLand-hosted Manila sites, and on all Frontier installations that update. I used the viewRssBox macro to put a news box on the XML-RPC home page.

WebReference has updated RSSViewerApplet. "First and foremost there is better compatibility with the RSS 0.91 version upgrade from 0.9."

Heads-up, I'm working on new features for RSS that build on 0.91. Calling it 0.92. I am not doing this as part of a working group, or in collaboration with anyone else. I'm doing an app that requires more functionality than 0.91 provides. I think the enhancements will be useful for other developers. There's already been enough discussion, and a lot of wasted time. I just want to make software. We did RSS for a reason, and the reason didn't disappear. We need the functionality.