Things are afoot. There is some weirdness happening among the developers who make magic with weblog syndication formats. I haven’t really had the time to dig into it too heavily because honestly I am pretty busy with other things. It does matter to me though because I will probably hook something like this into my CMS when I use it to take over here on my site.
Anyway, it all came to my attention when this Metafilter thread erupted over the temporary closing of Scripting News, a good weblog by a pretty good guy. Fortunately it looks like he is still updating.
It your technically minded, plough through the links below to see wassup, if it seems confusing what’s happening then join the club. I would love a nice, simple timeline. If you figure it out, [[let me know]].
- History of the RSS fork [dive into mark]
- inessential.com Weblog Comments for ‘Blogger We are moving away from XML-RPC’
- Dave Winer’s RSS 2.0 Political FAQ
- Sam Ruby Funky RSS
- John Robb’s Technology Weblog – “RSS and Echo” – including open comments – “Well the big companies have finally made their move in the weblog world with Sam Ruby being directed by IBM to take control of an emerging syndication standard.”
- EchoProject – Sam Ruby’s Wiki – includes motivation and differences
- FrontPage – Sam Ruby’s Wiki – covering Echo and RSS issues
- Sam Ruby Forward Motion! – some more by Sam on the topic
- Leave RSS alone [dive into mark]
- REST + SOAP
- blog.scriptdigital.com Emmanuel M Décarie’s weblog on scripting. – thoughts on the whole mess
- Archipelago News 07-02-2003 – links and items discussing the controversy
- inessential.com Weblog Comments for ‘Echo and namespaces and stuff’
- NamespaceDiscussion – Sam Ruby’s Wiki