RSS & TrackBacking
Some time ago, I jumped onto the RSS aggregation bandwagon (what's RSS?) to facilitate blog and news source consumption. Shrook is an excellent RSS newsreader for Mac OS X, with features and design that suit me more than NetNewsWire. I'm waiting on a just a few of the blogs I read to provide feeds.
Tonight I did a little work on my own blog. I've updated the RSS index to include full entries and photos, instead of just excerpts; something I like to see in other feeds I read. Thanks here to etc.'s MT RSS template. I've also opened up my entries to TrackBack pings, (what's TrackBack?) Thanks goes to Jeff from Beans for Breakfast for his lightweight TrackBacking method that I borrowed.
I'm more excited every day about how much this new medium is moving. I love watching how quickly the ripples not only move across the pond, but continually feed back into eachother.
Unlike traditional journalism, which seeks to provide complete information in a working final form, blogging is often exploratory. It's about what we are trying to learn, rather than about what I (or my journal) already know.
-- Doc Searls, Entrevue de Doc Searls by Michel Dumais
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I go and do something that feels like progress, then someone knocks me down again.
Embedded Markup Considered Harmful
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/20/embedded.html
Torn between:
expending time and energy trying to do something the "right way,"
and doing something that just works, but may not be entirely mindful of the future of a standard.
Someone give me a reasonable alternative? I'm tired of this.
-- jeff (August 24, 2003 3:31 PM)
I don't know if you've dealt with this yet, so I thought I'd mention it. A problem I ran into when I first added Trackbacks to my individual archive pages - MT doesn't rebuild individual archives when somebody leaves a TrackBack. I ended up doing an include/virtual of the trackback cgi to render that part of the page. Another option is hacking the MT code to have it rebuild the individual archive page whenever an entry is pinged:
http://philringnalda.com/blog/2002/12/rebuilding_individual_archives_when_pinged.php
It's ironic that two of the comments attached to the escaped markup article are partly scrambled because the authors didn't escape their example markup.
-- Jeff Sharman (August 24, 2003 5:06 PM)
to repeat myself,
I go and do something that feels like progress, then someone knocks me down again.
Well, thanks, nevertheless, Jeff -- I won't shoot the messenger. We'll see...
-- jeff (August 24, 2003 5:26 PM)
It's good to know that there are people worrying about this a lot more constructively than I am:
http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/EscapedHtmlDiscussion
The more I try to read into this issue, the more I realize I'm getting enmeshed in the battles over these technologies I made sure to turn a blind eye to the last couple of months; and the more I echo Manton Reece's feelings of wanting to burn my computer.
http://www.manton.org/2003/05/10.html#a129
Heretofore, I will leave this nonsense to said others and just ride the wave.
-- jeff (August 25, 2003 10:20 AM)
fuck it dood, lets go bowling.
-- melvin (August 26, 2003 8:59 AM)