You know that list of “update services” you configured your blog software to ping whenever you create a new post? If you copied it from the WordPress website (or any of a number of other sites on the web that have the same list) recently, you’ve got the wrong list.
When I say you’ve got the [...]

John Reese announced a new service today that concerned me a little…because it’s very similar to a project I’ve been working on for a few months. It looks like the future of link exchanges is the exchange of links and content. Here’s an overview of what I’ve been working on:
Members of my service (the name [...]

I switched my Blogger account to the beta of the new version today, republished one of my feeds, checked it to make sure it was in Atom “1.0″ format (yeah!), validated it at feedvalidator.org, and to my surprise, got this warning: “Self reference doesn’t match document location”. I checked the feed, and sure enough, the [...]

Today, along with a minor CaRP update, I sent out a few hints at what’s coming in a major CaRP update I hope to release next month. Here are some bullet points from today’s email:

I’m hoping to implement a new configuration method that doesn’t require all of the CarpConf calls. A change this big will [...]

Last year, I posted a few times regarding short-lived feeds and the problems caused by feed readers that continue to poll them long after they’ve gone quiet. The issue came up again on Tim Bray’s blog 3 days ago after he posted about his experience with enabling comments on his blog.
I just discovered Sam Ruby’s [...]

An issue that always seems to arise when adding an element (whether core or extension) to a feed format is whether the element appearing at the feed level applies to the entries. The reason to want it to apply is obvious–avoiding having to repeat identical data over and over in each entry. But allowing inheritance [...]

Blogger is finally gearing up to flip the switch from Atom 0.3 to Atom 1.0. Among the changes currently being rolled out to a limited number of Blogger users is a switch to Atom 1.0 as the default feed format. RSS 2.0 will also be available. Once the new system gets rolled out to all [...]

I’ve noticed over the last few days that one of my sites has been getting hundreds of hits a day from people searching for “katharine mcphee yellow dress”. I don’t have a site about American Idol, and I’ve never even typed the words “katharine mcphee” (and the first time I’d even copied and pasted the [...]

I’ve just set up a 7 day email mini-course, 7 ways to turn RSS into R$$. When you register, you also get a free download of CaRP Free, an RSS to HTML converter for your website, and if you stay on the mailing list, updated versions will be sent to you as they’re released.
This is [...]

The IETF Atom Working Group has been discussing a new Atom extension for creating threaded discussions between blog. The biggest bone of contention has been two new attributes for the link element which indicate the number of comments in a comments feed and the last time the comments feed was updated. There are two objections [...]