Craig Burton

Steve Gillmor makes the case for RSS in a memo to Steve Ballmer.

“Steve, you need to support RSS. Where do I want to go today? To my RSS reader.”
While I think Steve’s memo makes some good points and suggestions, I think it is unclear as to exactly how Microsoft needs to do to “support” RSS. Unless [...]

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Dave Winer says that he intends to support the Six Apart API if and when he gets his hands on it. He proceeds to explain that the API would support his existing membership system in Radio. He then says that somebody is going to say that he should be using LDAP. Finally, he says that [...]

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Another interesting RSS-based service is RSSJobs.com. Since I am busy looking for work, I think I will give it a whirl.

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I have been posting a alot about RSS lately. There are several reasons for this. First there is a lot of things being said about the format so its interesting and easy to follow. Second, and more importantly, RSS has changed the way I work every day. I guess RSS by itself hasn’t changed anything, but [...]

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Robert Scoble responded to Gillmore’s interview with Sun’s Schwartz yesterday. His comments sound a little reactive to me:

“Translation: “Will someone please offer Scobleizer a ton of money to leave Microsoft? He’s killing us.” ;-)”
At the same time, Scoble brought up some good points to Schwartz’ goofy comments about the open source community’s invovlement with [...]

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Dave Winer extends an olive branch to the Atom contingent to unite the two formats:

“RSS is here to stay and so are Google and Movable Type. Let’s all acknowledge that and stop this fight now.”
I think this is an obvious choice. Hope it happens.

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Dave points to an interview with Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz by Steve Gillmore:

“And there is already so much innovation occurring in the RSS community óthe number of articles written on RSS today is staggering.”
It’s amazing that it has taken so long. Sun’s adoption of RSS is welcomed news though.

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Mark Pilgrim summarizes his research into RSS compatibility:

“There are 9 versions of RSS, all of which are incompatible with various other versions. RSS 0.90 is incompatible with Netscapeís RSS 0.91, Netscapeís RSS 0.91 is incompatible with Userlandís RSS 0.91, Netscapeís RSS 0.91 is incompatible with RSS 1.0, Userlandís RSS 0.91 is incompatible with RSS 0.92, [...]

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