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Fun With Wordage

The increasingly popular FriendFeed is proposing a new protocol known as Simple Update Protocol (SUP). The problem FriendFeed is encountering is noting new. They monitor a RSS feeds over a variety of services for each user. This can really add up. To keep things timely they poll them frequently. Generally [...]

China’s Great Firewall has now started blocking RSS, a long known loophole to get information blocked all other ways. An entire syndication standard is now blocked. According to the Ars Technica:

PSB appears to have extended this block to all incoming URLs that begin with “feeds,” “RSS,” and “blog,” thus rendering the RSS feeds [...]

Once upon a time there were no icons for feeds. Many sites used orange icon which really made no sense to the average user (what’s XML?). Then there was a feed icon . It then started to become a standard and webmasters were encouraged to adopt it. This was a [...]