Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

Category: RSS

  • Announcing Feedbar (Firefox extension)

    About a year ago, I wrote my first RSS-related Firefox extension, RSS Ticker. It was intended to be used for getting instant notifications from a small number of feeds. As the number of feeds I follow has grown, I’ve found the ticker interface inadequate and frustrating, so I’ve been working on a new RSS extension…

  • Digg’s broken feeds: 3 days later

    Status of Digg’s broken search RSS feeds: still broken.

  • Buggy RSS feeds at Digg

    I just noticed a strange bug with Digg’s RSS feeds: when you subscribe to a feed for a search term (to monitor submissions of your blog posts, for example), sometimes the feed will be invalid because it is missing closing </channel> and </rss> tags. This means that the feed won’t be parsed by most readers,…

  • RSS Advisory Board

    Now that it’s on the website, it must be official: I’ve joined the RSS Advisory Board as a representative of Netscape. Netscape was the original creator of RSS, which came about in order to allow sites to syndicate content to My.Netscape. Other board members include the lead of Yahoo!’s RSS platform, an executive vice president…

  • Feed subscribers

    Now that Google Reader is reporting the number of users subscribed to a feed, I can finally tell that there are 35 people using Google Reader to read my feed. I wouldn’t have thought that 35 people *total* subscribed to my feed, but judging by what the other user-agents are reporting, about 50 people use…

  • The A to Z of me

    I’ve been thinking recently that it’d be fun to see what domains are listed first in the auto-complete for my URL bar for each letter of the alphabet. Shall we? archive.org: a digital library of Internet sites. Most recently, I checked it to get a cached copy of the RSS 0.91 DTD. blog.netscape.com: the official…

  • On deprecating RSS 0.91

    Our decision at Netscape to stop hosting the DTD for RSS 0.91 has inspired some healthy discussion around the Web on the topics of RSS and DTDs. Since I was speaking for Netscape in the official blog, I wanted to lay out my personal thoughts on the matter. However, as is normally the case, the…

  • Netscape and RSS DTDs

    We’ve resolved the missing RSS DTD situation at Netscape, but the file won’t be around forever. Read my post at the Netscape blog to get the full details regarding the availabilities of the DTDs for RSS 0.9 and 0.91.

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