Re: [syndication] Automatically Transforming Blog or HTML Content into XML

[elijah wright <elw@stderr.org>]

> Lies, damned lies and statistics, as Mark Twain used to say.
>
> There's more to the weblogging world than blogger/blogspot.
> LiveJournal's got a bajillion subscribers.  Now, arguing content value
> over content quantity might be a differentiating factor.  One fraught
> with perl.

LJ also doesn't call itself a 'blog', and there are significant #s of
genre features that tend to make people think that their "journals" might
be something different than "blogs".

these are pretty important distinctions...


> > this means that "most" blogging tools do not in fact deal with RSS.
>
> Define 'deal with'.  It's the minority of weblogging TOOLS that don't
> understand or support RSS.  This number narrows quite rapidly once the
> developers see how easy it is to make an RSS feed.  That tools like
> Blogger make RSS an option is true.  That the option is 'held hostage'
> behind a paying support contract is usually the reason.

yeah.  semantics are important here - a high % of blog tools used
(counting users, not tools) don't do RSS, but a high % of blog tools
(counting % of all tools, not of all users) *do* do RSS.

> I look forward to seeing the results of your paper.

it has been fun ;)  nice to confirm some gossip from the larger community,
while disproving other bits...


elijah