Blind to RSS's shortcommings
It is pretty funny to see this post. Funny in a sad sort of way. The eWeek article that Dave Winer doesn't understand is clearly understood by the posters on his website. Further, this has been a problem with RSS since day one. As far as we can tell Atom doesn't solve this. Search Feedster and you'll find tons of hijacked feeds, some innocently some maliciously. Sometimes one is so intent on believing their creation flawless they seem to be totally blind to its major shortcomings, and want credit for all the good and place blame for the ill their pet project creates.
posted by I'm Not Dave at 8:09 AM
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Well, Dave is still at Web-1.0 (remember? he invented XML-RPC, a flagship of old days), while podcasting is clearly at higher level. ;)
I invented plotcasting
The thing I don't get in the eweek article, is how does this differ from me copying and hosting your web page? Is the idea that this is hard for you to find because you can't check your url in iTunes or Yahoo (you can right?), or hard to fix because they don't listen, or easy for me to do because you still pay the hosting and still get the hits so you keep going with the podcast?
The problem encountered has nothing to do with RSS. It's a flaw with the directories. Had they used reflexive autodiscovery, their would be no problem.
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