Re: [syndication] Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

Let's get it on the Web so other people can have a look. Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Swartz" <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
To: <syndication@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:32 PM
Subject: [syndication] Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.


> Dave Winer <dave@userland.com> wrote:
>
> > I have an idea.
> >
> > Could you prepare a RSS "1.0" version of this file?
>
> Sure Dave! It was really easy, because there's an online RSS 0.9 -> 1.0
> converter by Jonathan "Not-So-Desperate Perl Hacker" Eisenzopf. :-)
>
> http://www.perlxml.com/cgi-bin/rss_converter.pl
>
> I dropped the file in and it gave me this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <rdf:RDF
>  xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";
>  xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/";
>  xmlns:rss091="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules#rss091";
> >
>
> <channel rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com";>
> <title>WriteTheWeb</title>
> <link>http://writetheweb.com</link>
> <description>News for web users that write back</description>
> <rss091:language>en-us</rss091:language>
> <rss091:copyright>Copyright 2000, WriteTheWeb team.</rss091:copyright>
> <rss091:managingEditor>editor@writetheweb.com</rss091:managingEditor>
> <rss091:webMaster>webmaster@writetheweb.com</rss091:webMaster>
> </channel>
>
> <image rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/images/mynetscape88.gif";>
> <inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
> <title>WriteTheWeb</title>
> <url>http://writetheweb.com/images/mynetscape88.gif</url>
> <link>http://writetheweb.com</link>
> <rss091:width>88</rss091:width>
> <rss091:height>31</rss091:height>
> <rss091:description>News for web users that write
back</rss091:description>
> </image>
>
> <item rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=24"; position="1">
> <inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
> <title>Giving the world a pluggable Gnutella</title>
> <link>http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=24</link>
> <description>WorldOS is a framework on which to build programs that work
> like Freenet or Gnutella -allowing distributed applications using
> peer-to-peer routing.</description>
> </item>
>
> <item rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=23"; position="2">
> <inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
> <title>Syndication discussions hot up</title>
> <link>http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=23</link>
> <description>After a period of dormancy, the Syndication mailing list has
> become active again, with contributions from leaders in traditional media
> and Web syndication.</description>
> </item>
>
> <item rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=22"; position="3">
> <inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
> <title>Personal web server integrates file sharing and messaging</title>
> <link>http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=22</link>
> <description>The Magi Project is an innovative project to create a
combined
> personal web server and messaging system that enables the sharing and
> synchronization of information across desktop, laptop and palmtop
> devices.</description>
> </item>
>
> <item rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=21"; position="4">
> <inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
> <title>Syndication and Metadata</title>
> <link>http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=21</link>
> <description>RSS is probably the best known metadata format around. RDF is
> probably one of the least understood. In this essay, published on my
> O'Reilly Network weblog, I argue that the next generation of RSS should be
> based on RDF.</description>
> </item>
>
> <item rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=20"; position="5">
> <inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
> <title>UK bloggers get organised</title>
> <link>http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=20</link>
> <description>Looks like the weblogs scene is gathering pace beyond the
> shores of the US. There's now a UK-specific page on weblogs.com, and a
> mailing list at egroups.</description>
> </item>
>
> <item rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=19"; position="6">
> <inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
> <title>Yournamehere.com more important than anything</title>
> <link>http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=19</link>
> <description>Whatever you're publishing on the web, your site name is the
> most valuable asset you have, according to Carl Steadman.</description>
> </item>
>
> </rdf:RDF>
>
> Now I'm a rather biased opinion, so I went to ask my brothers (9 and 12 --
> experts on simplicity :-)) what they thought. They said they were about
the
> same, but that 1.0 might be a little easier to understand. (I didn't tell
> them what to say -- honest!) So there it is -- straight from the child's
> mouth!
>
> --
>         Aaron Swartz         |"This information is top security.
> <http://swartzfam.com/aaron/>|     When you have read it, destroy
yourself."
>   <http://www.theinfo.org/>  |             - Marshall McLuhan
>
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