Sunday, June 29, 2003

The Blogcount Estimate Date Estimate (millions of active weblogs) Source 2003-6 2.4 to 2.9 Phil Wolff, blogcount.com [blogcount] what can we speculate about the number of readers of weblogs? 8:36:08 PM

Ben Trott: Why We Need Echo... The Echo Project is a new movement within the blogosphere to redo the RSS spec and the weblog-editor API to be more in sync with each other. Instead of revving the RSS spec(s), many in the community have elected to start fresh with Echo. Sam Ruby seems to be the center point for this. Why start over? Ben Trott: Why We Need Echo. [Scripting News] The short list is this: The RSS spec does not say how to encode content. XML-RPC is severely lacking in internationalization (I18N) support Content is represented differently in an API than it is in a syndicated feed Confusion over elements No universally-supported and -defined extensions 8:17:12 PM