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Mark Pilgrim explains why an update to RSS-autodiscovery tag is necessary. This morning, I updated my site with his recommended changes. He went so far as to come and post a comment on my weblog urging me to update my template.
Since he’s been having fun writing tools to provide insight into social networking and blogging, I think the next project he can lead on is to encourage people to put in proper RSS files with e-mail contact information.
May be extend the Blogger XML-RPC API to let people comment on a blog entry too? I can imagine how time consuming it would have been for Mark to visit individual early adopters' blogs and type in the comments. Perhaps it can work like this:
- Mark posts some new idea on his log, that has a potential to change
- When I read it and implement it, I make a blog entry of my own, which in some standard way (ie, something easier than parsing my blog!) confirms that the information came from Mark.
- Now, Mark is able to (yeah, write another script like blogrollfinder.py) identify and attach my entry to his entry.
- When Mark posts another entry which is a followup on his previous entry, he indicates in some standard way it is linked to his previous entry. If he choose to, he writes another script that scans the referrers list attached to the previous entry, posts a comment on my weblog entry.
This can be a very inviting to spammers and crackers. But, hey, that is the way to start collaboration, right? We first start it, then filter out the undesirable collaborators!