molly.com
Tuesday 18 May 2004
in the wake of things to come
Items of interest:
- You can read about all the web celebrities moving over to WordPress at photomatt’s.
- You can read today’s W3C / Atom meeting minutes. Simon Willison found the document difficult to read, so he created a nice style sheet to apply to make reading the discussion less painful. Main topics of discussion: Is Atom appropriate for the W3C?, How would it fit into the W3C’s infrastructure – working group or activity? Also discussed was expected time to recommendation. No questions were answered but new ones were asked. Like you’re really all so surprised by that.
- My friends in the eastern United States are being plagued by cicadas. These aren’t the kinder, gentler cicadas we enjoy down here in the desert every summer. O-o-o-oh no. These cicadas will eat your children.
I’ve taken to timing my Movable Type rebuilds and de-spamming procedures. I’ll provide some stats once I’ve got something worthy to report.
Hat tips: Simon Willison, Matt Mullenweg, and someone’s blog I read too early this morning to remember. Got a “Cicadas Ate My Children” story? More gripes on MT, RSS, RDF, Atom and any other two or three letter combo? Deposit in comments, preferably sprinkled with four letter combos to relieve the monotony born of acryonyms and abbreviations.
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Posted by: site admin | 03:09 | Comments (8)
Word up! WordPress finally gets some recognitions. I was from the old school of B2 (engine behind WordPress) to WordPress. Now WordPress rocks the blogs.
Two questions:
1) How, if at all, would your interest (or lack thereof) in Atom change if it were pursued under the auspices of the IETF vs. the W3C?
2) Why do you lump Atom in the “two or three letter combo” category?
Hey Sam,
Good q’s.
1. My interest in Atom won’t change either way. I’m not advocating the W3C have it, in fact I’ve pointed out more than once that the “which one is the right one” syndication argument is a holy war I don’t want to be taking sides in just yet, either as a WaSP or as a private citizen. I am interested in what will emerge, so I am watching. I will say I lean toward allowing more than one format, and that licensing is a big concern.
2. You’re absolutely correct, Atom is not a three letter combo. My only excuse? By the time I’d typed MT, RSS and RDF and W3C several times, I think I just had a momentary lapse of basic math skills (happens frequently). I’d change my post but since you commented on it, I’ll leave it in for the sake of amusement.
–M
Hey Molly,
While you answered a question on #1, I’m not yet entirely sure that the question you answered is the one I meant to ask, so let me try again, this time with more background…
My question on “which one” is not intended to be between syndication formats, but on standards bodies. Independent of the context does it make a difference to you if a standard is an IETF one or a W3C one?
The reason why I ask is that your interest seemed to pick up once the W3C expressed an interest, and I am looking to understand whether that is merely a coincidence, a misinterpretation on my part, or is based on a preference on your part.
I haven’t blogged since the early steam-powered efforts in the mid-nineties, but have been checking out Wordpress in the last couple of days. From my humble 33k dial-up in the French countryside I can’t even navigate their website without configuration error messages – maybe their server is now utterly swamped by ex MT-niks looking to avoid SixApart’s charges!