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December 12, 2004

Julian Bond's Three RSS Conclusions

Julian Bond writes about how old resources he created that use RSS never die: they just continue to get pounded on by abandoned projects. Is there an Internet term for abandoned resources that live on? Not zombies. Perhaps The Und3@d?

His conclusions, brief already, rewritten to be even terser by yours truly: Crappy aggregators abandon ship. Opportunistic programmers abandon ship. Abandoned ships are abandoned. How long has RSS been the Marie Celeste?

Posted by Glennf at December 12, 2004 08:15 AM

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I recently discovered that something somewhere out there is looking for now-gone RDF files I used to code by hand in early 1999, when just about the only use for them was the "My Netscape" page. Strange thing to see in an error log. So I just did an htaccess redirect to newer XML feeds. I assume it's just someone looking for content to fill a box on a Slash/Nuke-like site.

Posted by: Grant Barrett [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 15, 2004 09:00 AM

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