Monday, January 5, 2004

Request For Comments: Synchronization of Information Aggregators using Markup (SIAM) Dare, Brent, Kevin, myself and others have been discussing a standard to exchange subscriptions and item-states between aggregators. A standard like this would not only allow you to for instance sync up different SharpReader instances on different PCs (say one at work and the other at home), but would also work across aggregators so you'd even be able to for... (95 words)

Duplicate posts in .Text blogs For anyone that noticed a lot of duplicate posts recently in .Text weblogs, this is not a SharpReader bug, but rather a result of some changes in the rss generated by .Text in a recent version. These changes are: <guid>, which went from http://{site}/{blogname}/posts/{post-number}.aspx to http://{site}/{blogname}/archive/{year}/{month}/{day}/{post-number}.aspx <link>, which was changed in the same way. <description>, which now adds an invisible... (245 words)