More on RSS:
So it’s in this context that I ask why should we “deprecate” some elements of RSS 2.0.
I dare say that RSS would not be the success it is today without these discontinuities. In particular, making title optional was a bold step that broke a number of assumptions that tools were making but made available a large number of feeds.
I’m disappointed because assumptions have been made that the efforts of the RSS 1.0 working group and Userland can never merge.
I’m not going to be enthused by a non-RDF syndication format. … I think RSS1.0 got the balance pretty much spot-on in supporting both RDF and XML views, but if you disagree I advise you not to try to placate us. Abandon us completely!
We need to move on. The innocence is over. RSS is going to be an RDF application with rich and complex modules that include RDF vocabulary. In short RSS is going to become complicated.
The RSS 0.9x branch is just a temporary diversion while people are still trying to grasp the semantic web.I agree 100%. Keep in mind, however, that HTML is just a temporary diversion while people are still trying to grasp SGML. (See also: The Rise of
Worse is Better)
Then I pointed rdfdump at my XHMTL page, to see what the TrackBack RDF would look like. Uh oh, judging by the error it throws, the RDF parser is yet another thing that doesn’t approve of RDF embedded in XHTML. So unless I’m missing something, I’ll have to parse out the RDF, and then parse it (which I’d probably have to do anyway, what with people commenting it out rather than use cloaking to hide it from validators). Sigh. I can’t help thinking how easy it would be to add mod_trackback to RSS 0.94/2.0, and just parse the XML as XML.
I do not have a problem for which RDF is a solution.
Plain Text Syndicationand write it up as an RFC. (More comments here.)
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dfn. Don’t.More on Jaguar:
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One of the hidden functions of Jaguar’s new and improved AirPort support technology is its patented Silent Invisible Laser. Disable children’s remote controlled vehicles with a crippling blast from up to 150 feet away. Stun pedestrians, repel mosquitoes, and melt lead with the amazing Silent Invisible Laser.
More of the same, only different:
When confronted with a freshly pressed meta-meta-meta article on weblogging, I now mentally substitute the word “trampoline” for “blog” and, when necessary, “breakdancing contest” for “book.”
Just the food, please.
In all likelihood, the tiny plastic boxes attached to poles at busy intersection corners, the ones with buttons in the center and signs that read ‘Press Button and Wait for Light to Turn Green’ despite the conspicuous absence of wires connecting the box to anything controllable, are placebos.
…and then watching a twelve-year-old girl traipse, rapt and entranced, through that shop that appears to aim, successfully, its demographic pitch at what back in my day (hrmph) was called the skanky ho…
Just once can someone pull out their digital video camera without you shouting “Hello, people of the future! We enjoyed boating and pizza before humankind was forced to live underground!”?
And finally:
(Just writing down the moment of epiphany.)
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