Comments on: hAtom and featured content http://aaronmentele.com/2006/12/26/hatom-and-featured-content/ personal blog of Aaron Mentele, web developer and partner at Electric Pulp Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:22:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Aaron Mentele http://aaronmentele.com/2006/12/26/hatom-and-featured-content/comment-page-1/#comment-7820 Aaron Mentele Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:56:31 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/12/26/hatom-and-featured-content/#comment-7820 <p>Excellent. Thanks for the link - I'll check it out. </p> <p>Now that I've checked it out, I have a couple of comments. First, the article was posted more than four years ago. Even though the article is loosing its relevance, I agree with several points in his post. Personally, I don't see hAtom as a way to replace RSS. I see it as an alternative. And, if it's an alternative, it should have some distinguishing features. Featured content and visual metadata would be two that I think would fit well. </p> Excellent. Thanks for the link – I’ll check it out.

Now that I’ve checked it out, I have a couple of comments. First, the article was posted more than four years ago. Even though the article is loosing its relevance, I agree with several points in his post. Personally, I don’t see hAtom as a way to replace RSS. I see it as an alternative. And, if it’s an alternative, it should have some distinguishing features. Featured content and visual metadata would be two that I think would fit well.

]]> By: David Janes http://aaronmentele.com/2006/12/26/hatom-and-featured-content/comment-page-1/#comment-7819 David Janes Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:45:10 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/12/26/hatom-and-featured-content/#comment-7819 Ah. If you think there's a sufficient case, just open a page on the microformats wiki and start documenting examples; it's easy enough to be additive to hAtom. There's been plenty of talk in past about HTML-based syndication and it's generally been though to be a bad idea. This (http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/11/26/syndication_is_not_publication) is considered to be the seminal post about the topic. Ah. If you think there’s a sufficient case, just open a page on the microformats wiki and start documenting examples; it’s easy enough to be additive to hAtom.

There’s been plenty of talk in past about HTML-based syndication and it’s generally been though to be a bad idea. This (http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/11/26/syndication_is_not_publication) is considered to be the seminal post about the topic.

]]> By: Aaron Mentele http://aaronmentele.com/2006/12/26/hatom-and-featured-content/comment-page-1/#comment-7800 Aaron Mentele Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:34:23 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/12/26/hatom-and-featured-content/#comment-7800 Hey David. I wrote that it has no way to <b>differentiate</b> posts, not no way to identify posts (if you look, you'll see that this blog uses the format.) I agree with you that hAtom doesn't provide a new way of doing feeds. That's the problem. Hey David. I wrote that it has no way to differentiate posts, not no way to identify posts (if you look, you’ll see that this blog uses the format.) I agree with you that hAtom doesn’t provide a new way of doing feeds. That’s the problem.

]]> By: David Janes http://aaronmentele.com/2006/12/26/hatom-and-featured-content/comment-page-1/#comment-7799 David Janes Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:09:36 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/12/26/hatom-and-featured-content/#comment-7799 "hentry" distinguishes individual entries within a feed and is the primary way hAtom is used. The intention of hAtom is not to provide a new way of doing feeds but to identify semantic content commonly associated with blog posts; it takes the name Atom as we used that to name elements. “hentry” distinguishes individual entries within a feed and is the primary way hAtom is used. The intention of hAtom is not to provide a new way of doing feeds but to identify semantic content commonly associated with blog posts; it takes the name Atom as we used that to name elements.

]]> By: Visual metadata in feeds at charisma:18 http://aaronmentele.com/2006/12/26/hatom-and-featured-content/comment-page-1/#comment-7044 Visual metadata in feeds at charisma:18 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:48:08 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/12/26/hatom-and-featured-content/#comment-7044 [...] As I’ve written before, hAtom could gain fans by including some post metadata. Adding [visual] metadata for the entire feed would be one more cheering point to those of us that still see benefit in the “visual Internet.” Technorati Tags: Tags: No Tags | [...] [...] As I’ve written before, hAtom could gain fans by including some post metadata. Adding [visual] metadata for the entire feed would be one more cheering point to those of us that still see benefit in the “visual Internet.” Technorati Tags: Tags: No Tags | [...]

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