> I also find it troubling that blogs and feeds tend to be treated as > necessarily related (or even the same thing!) when really there is no > requirement for a blog to have a feed or for a feed to have a blog. > This is why I think people tend to miss some useful applications for > RSS, because they're thinking too much in the box -- the blog box, > that is.
Well, there's also the issue of everything and the kitchen sink being jammed into a feed. There are certainly arguments both ways. > Simplicity would be good for everyone, but (unfortunately) that > doesn't match reality, because the tool set and problem space within > which the tools are applied is necessarily very complex. What might > be "simple" for you might also be worthless for someone else, and vice > versa. There's also what I call "the tyranny of bad tools". All too often a format gets hamstrung because the "popular" tools fail to make effective use (or even insist on DEFECTIVE use) of the data. > > Do feeds really want permalink information? In general if you're publishing something that has longevity then you'd do well to include a permanent link to it. As in, someone gets your feed, makes a bookmark of an item or mails it to someone else. If the link isn't reasonably permanent then it'd be useless over time. > My RSS 1.0 feeds, for example, do not > have permalink information by that name, but the link in each item > meets that permanent & unique need. Yes, quite correct. There's no need for a special hack like isPermaLink for RDF feeds. They're already smart enough to handle that. > > What is it and why? I've seen formats like: whateversubject.htm#12345 Is > > there a rhyme and/or reason to those formats? Sure, and they're perfectly legitimate. They're a pointer to a position *within* the document referenced by the URL. Setup a <a name="12345"/> tag on a page called "xyz.html" and you can then jump right to the reference using "xyz.html#12345" > This is why people will use blog and/or content management (CMS) tools > that make RSS or Atom support either transparent or just a few clicks > away. Yep, it's almost always better to use a content publishing tool that handles it automagically. -Bill Kearney Syndic8.com If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
