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Speed Meets Feed in Download Tool

Wired: "A demo publishing system launched Friday by a popular programmer and blogger merges two of this season's hottest tech fads -- RSS news syndication and BitTorrent file sharing -- to create a c...

Why are dates RFC 822

Gene Saunders writes: "Why does RSS 2.0 use RFC 822 instead of the (infinitely more modern) RFC 2822" Here's why we went with RFC 822: 1. Any scripting software that was used in Internet application...

The role of the advisory board

There's been some confusion about the role of the advisory board. The purpose of this post to try to clear it up.1. It's got a very conservative mission, to answer questions about RSS, to help people ...

RSS documentation updates

If you're not tracking this site's change notes page, you might have missed a few minor edits to the documentation for RSS 2.0: The RSS 2.0 sample file has been updated. An encoding issue has been f...

Proposed clarification for RSS 2.0 spec

Requesting comments on a couple of proposed clarifications to the RSS 2.0 spec. 1. Under Elements of <item>, replace the lead paragraph with the following. The new text is highlighted in green. A ...

Proposed clarification for RSS 2.0 spec (revised)

Here's a revised proposal for a clarification to the RSS 2.0 spec. Under Elements of <item>, replace the lead paragraph with the following. A channel may contain any number of <item>s. An item ...

RSS Usage Skyrockets in the U.S.

Six million Americans get news and information from RSS aggregators, according to a nationwide telephone survey conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project in November. The project, an on...

Simple Syndication in Communist China

The English language edition of People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China, offers 18 RSS 2.0 newsfeeds. In addition to feeds on current events in news, business, sports, ...

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