Thursday, February 13, 2003

OK, I finally get this RSS stuff. Represent news items as XML, aggregate them in a page. Voila! You have a web log. For a long time I didn't get it. What would an end user want with all that XML? Well, not much really, it's only valuable if it's displayed in a format the user can use. But one never knows what it might become useful for down the road. Makes you think... Being an editor is the most crucial thing. Sure, you get lots of RSS stuff thrown your way, but you sift the good stuff from the chaff, and decide what YOU think is interesting. One thing I'm curious about is attribution. For example, I just posted a blurb about Apple which included attribution to MacSlash. Must I do that? Are there rules about this stuff? 11:00:34 AM    comment [] Just saw this on MacSlash: Apple Posts XML Schema For Keynote Very interesting. Makes Keynote all the more attractive over PowerPoint. Microsoft uses XML file formats too, but they don't document it, and have so many extensions that it isn't very useful XML. If Apple stands behind this specification, this is a really good thing (tm). 10:45:21 AM    comment []

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