[thelist] RSS Feed version

Steven Streight steven.streight at gmail.com
Sun Nov 5 14:47:37 CST 2006


Feedburner is a popular RSS service for users to syndicate a site, and it
includes several flavors.

See the Extreme Tech (Wiley) book "Hacking RSS and Atom" for good info on
more technical aspects. Robert Scoble is another good source of info, and he
answers email.

On 11/4/06, Pierre-Henri Lavigne <lavigne at getphuture.com> wrote:
>
> Howdy Paul,
>
> I posted a similar question on the WSG mailing list a few weeks ago and
> one of this answer was :
>
> ==
> I would recommend you pick one that does what you need and stick with it.
> I'm not the only person who feels this way:
> http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/05/25/Pick-ONE
> ==
>
> I admit it's not so easy. For example, such guru as A list apart decided
> to support only RSS 2.0 (http://www.alistapart.com/feed/) and the w3 to
> support only the RSS 1.0 on their site. Anyway for various reasons you
> may decide support both primary format, RSS and ATOM. In this way you
> should consider to keep one version for each format. Outside my
> professional work I'm working as volunteer to renew the code of the
> scummvm.org site. They decided before I came to support both. I updated
> to a standard way and you can find an example of RSS 2.0 and ATOM 1.0 here
> :
> http://www.scummvm.org/feed-rss20.php
> http://www.scummvm.org/feed-atom.php
>
> Anyway I'm not the best to advise you for a high traffic site but I
> suppose bandwidth is important so maybe in your case one feed should be
> enough and if RSS 2.0 is the best choice. They are some informations on
> wiki about differences between rss and atom.
>
> I performed a fast search about some french gov site and I'm shure this
> is not an objective stat but 1/5was was using both and the others rss
> 2.0 only. Not shure they decided from themself 'cause we did some state
> public gov sites at my work and some tools such as SPIP were set to one
> RSS 2.0 feed hehe
>
> Regards,
>
> _________________________________________________
>
> Pierre-Henri Lavigne
> Cell Phone: +33618753267
> http://www.getphuture.com
>
> Some exist through what they do...
> We exist through what we are
>
>
> Paul Bennett wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm looking to launch an RSS feed for a large local government
> organisation. I've got it set up as RSS 2.0 at the moment, but am only
> using the following elements:
> >
> > (Head)
> > - Title
> > - link
> > - description
> > - lastBuildDate
> > - language
> >
> > (News Items)
> > - title
> > - pubDate
> > - description
> >
> > I'm (vaguely) aware of the format wars that have gone on with RSS, but
> is there anything I need to be aware of? Do I need to alter my feed version
> or fomat (eg: atom)?
> >
> > Thoughts welcome,
> >
> > Paul
> >
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