Syndication and publishing for fsfe.org (was: RSS aggregator for fsfe.org)

Ben Finney ben at benfinney.id.au
Tue Sep 19 04:35:25 UTC 2006


On 18-Sep-2006, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 19:48 +0200, Stefano Spinucci wrote:
> > I'd like to have a simple RSS aggregation of FSFE blog entries,
> > readable with google reader (reader.google.com)
> 
> I can assure you that this is next on our todo list,

Please jump ahead of the next request and implement it as an Atom feed
foremost. RSS, while popular, is non-standard, poorly specified, and
has multiple incompatible versions all in use. Atom is the future.

    <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)>

Of course, this doesn't mean that an RSS feed can't be provided in
addition.

> right after adding the possibility to clean blog comments from spam
> (and avoid future spam problems).  That seems to be very nasty.

Yes, that sounds like the right priority. Thanks for your efforts to
improve the site.

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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