Re: Yahoo & RSS

At 10:26 AM 03/10/2004 -0500, Stuart Levine wrote:
>I have a Yahoo personal page.  Yahoo is currently 
>offering in beta a form of aggregator to add to the 
>information shown on the page.
>
>You can have subscribe to up to 25 weblogs.
>
>The weird part of this:  The aggregator only works with 
>RSS.  Yahoo owns Blogger and, as has been reported, 
>Blogger is abandoning RSS for Atom.  It seems that one 
>corporate hand doesn't know what the other is doing.


Just as a point for clarification, Google, rather than Yahoo, owns Blogger.
 Yahoo recently split from using Google to relying upon their acquisition
of Overture, which is generating a lot of commentary.  I also saw a post
this  week on a non-legal blog that described yet another method for adding
RSS feeds to one's MyYahoo! page.  I don't recall any limitations onthe
number of feeds.  If/when I find it, I'll post the link here.

As an FYI, when Blogger's exclusive choice for Atom support was reported, I
had not one, but three key posts on my blog, which elicited many posted
comments from key proponents of RSS (such as Dave Winer himself) and Atom.
They gave me a deeper understanding of why this debate is so polarized, and
where each format's strengths and weaknesses lie.  Considering the
substantial spike in my site traffic, I'd say this is definitely a hot
topic among bloggers and the web community, and it's not going to be
resolved overnight.  They each have their uses, many of which overlap,
which blurs the lines a bit.

They are posted in the following order:

1) "The Great RSS vs. Atom News Feed Debate"
http://www.lawtechguru.com/archives/2004/02/13_the_great_rss_vs_atom_news_fe
ed_debate.html

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/2dg2b

2) "RSS vs. Atom Continues"
http://www.lawtechguru.com/archives/2004/02/16_rss_vs_atom_continues.html

Tiny URL:  http://tinyurl.com/2zut3

3) "Some RSS & Atom Observations"
http://www.lawtechguru.com/archives/2004/02/18_some_rss_atom_observations.html

Tiny URL:  http://tinyurl.com/22h8l

Lastly, I've also just posted an update for one's choices in using Palm
PDAs for receiving and reading RSS feeds:

"Update on RSS Readers for Palm OS-based PDAs"
http://www.lawtechguru.com/archives/2004/03/09_update_on_rss_readers_for_pal
m_osbased_pdas.html

Tiny URL:  http://tinyurl.com/ytjmb

Anyway, I hope you find them useful.

Best regards,

Jeff

Jeffrey Beard
Legal Technology Consultant
Milwaukee, WI
jjbeard-sxCt/[email protected]
www.lawtechguru.com



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