Since posting yesterday about the subscribe button hell that’s overrunning some weblogs, I’ve been thinking a little more about the problems universal feed subscription method would need to address and how it might work. A quick refresher: we need a way to enable users of any feed reader to subscribe to a feed (or at […]

Does your blog look like this?
Updated list of subscribe buttons
I’ve updated my list of subscribe buttons to include every feed reader known to man, and one known only to monkeys and algae. Click the button to the right for your reader to subscribe to this feed. 

If things keep going the way they are, with every […]

If “Web+1” is to overtake “Web 2.0″, it needs a snappy theme song. Here it is, based on Love Plus One by Haircut 100:
Web Plus One
by Haircut 10.0
I, I clicked off of the site
Without bookmarking, “goodbye!”
Where does it go from here?
Is it blogging and feeds I hear?
R R R R S S
A A A T […]

After posting yesterday, I realized that I hadn’t expressed on opinion on whether “Web 2.0″ is a good name despite it’s inaccuracy. Hmm. Yeah, sure, whatever. “++Web” would be more universally accurate since the result could be a different number for everyone’s local value of “Web”, but that wouldn’t be as widely understood. “Web++” looks […]

Yesterday, Tim Bray posted an entry about his dislike for the term “Web 2.0″, arguing that the growing impact of blogging and syndication on the way the web works is “3.0″, not “2.0″ (and hints that it may even be “4.0″). Tim O’Reilly, whose organization has a conference named the “Web 2.0 Conference” posted today […]

While writing recently about short-lived feeds for breaking news and aggregator support for deleted feeds, it occurred to me that publishers may not want to delete their short-lived feeds once they’ve finished posting to them. What do you do when you’re not going to update a feed anymore, but you don’t want to delete it? […]

Following up on my idea of using short-lived feeds to cover breaking news, as Sam Ruby points out, after a feed disappears, some aggregators don’t stop trying to download them. This wouldn’t cause a site that had only published a few short-lived feeds much trouble. But if a major news site started publishing short-lived feeds […]

The breaking news today about a man, possibly connected with terrorism, being shot by police in London, sparked a thought about a possible use for RSS and Atom feeds: very short-lived feeds for breaking news.
My wife heard the initial news of the London incident on the radio, and I went to CNN.com to see if […]

Atom 1.0: “It’s cooked and ready to serve. There are a couple of IETF process things to do, but this draft is essentially Atom 1.0. Now would be a good time for implementors to roll up their sleeves and go to work.”
Thus Tim Bray announced the imminent completion of our work on the Atom feed […]

I released a new product last weekend, Tetra, that integrates with my RSS to HTML conversion script (CaRP) to put RSS newsfeeds into a DHTML (JavaScript) scroller. Tetra supports AJAX, enabling dynamic updating of the scroller’s contents without requiring the webpage to be reloaded. A large number of feeds could be aggregated into one scroller, […]