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RSS

ziggy on 2004-11-23T17:42:17

Gub'ment Computer News reports on some interesting uses of RSS at the Census Bureau, NOAA and other federal agencies.

I dunno. I just can't seem to get excited about RSS or Atom. It all seems so very 1997 to me. Obvious and boring, too. (Then again, I do remember my.netscape.com, and wished that the hundreds of feeds that Netscape aggregated were available for public use.)

But if the tech press must hype something, at least RSS is something useful, even if it is a big steaming pile of random and gratuitous incompatability. Better that than waxing poetic about some brand new boolean operator that Microsft just invented.

I'm waiting for Microsoft's patent application of an IsSomewhatSimilarTo method on strings.
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RSS / 1997

cog on 2004-11-23T17:51:32

[...] can't seem to get excited about RSS or Atom. It all seems so very 1997 [...]

It's RSS, not URSS :-) (I know, I know, that wouldn't be 1997)

Anyway, I think it's pretty cool for lots of people. Now I can actually follow Slashdot! :-)

Slogan

chaoticset on 2004-11-23T18:22:30

Let me guess -- the T-shirts say I participated in intellectual property ownership and all I got was this lousy t-shirty, right?

Re:Slogan

phillup on 2004-11-23T19:07:46

Well, looking at the address... I'd say that the T-Shirt would say something like
Think Different
Which would actually be a good slogan for IP law.

Re:Slogan

chaoticset on 2004-11-24T15:56:16

Or, perhaps:
Think Different OR ELSE!