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Handling RSS in the browser

January 12, 2005 - 669 words , 21 comments
People often forget that many of the problems faced by RSS and Atom are not new. They’ve already been solved, so instead of reinventing the wheel we should use the existing standards. How a browser handles an RSS feed is the latest example of this.
Also tagged as: feeds rss zawodny

Why's it called Syndication?

June 17, 2004 - 298 words , 4 comments
When people collect content from multiple sources, it’s not really syndication, it’s aggregation. A reader asks why this is and what he should call it.
Also tagged as: blog netscape rss syndication