Back in 2004, Kathyrn Cramer, a veteran hypertexter, described blogging as “writing on a roll of papers towels” [1], so I’ve been on the lookout for blogging tools that behave more like hypertext. The Institute for the Future of the Book released CommentPress, a WordPress Theme, that breaks out block-level elements of a blog post [...]
Back in 2004, I wrote up my harsh lesson in using a validating parser and why you should use an XML Catalog in your systems. Last week, Netscape temporarily removed the DTD for RSS 0.91 from their site, and things promptly went south. In response to that mess, Henri Sivonen points out that if you’re [...]
Tim Bray has the right take on the JSON/XML kerfluffle.
hAtom‘s not useful until you have a way to get from a blog’s summary page to an Atom feed. Chris Casciano wrote an AppleScript wrapping xsltproc that reads an hAtom page, applies the hAtom2Atom.xsl transform, and hands the result back to NetNewsWire. Note: Scott Reynen points out that the script doesn’t work with NNW 2.1 [...]