66 members! :-)

[Dave Winer]

That's a good start!

I have several pieces of software I'm working on that do stuff with
RSS. The two most basic are River2 and Radio2, the former is a river-
of-news aggregator, and the latter a simple linkblogging tool.

The goal is to have a componentized approach to microblogging, based
on open formats used to connect the components, instead of it all
residing on a single company's servers and relying on APIs to connect
to other tools. This is a zig to the zag of Twitter/Facebook and the
other microblogging services out there. I believe you can make a nice
system and have independence.

I created a new namespace [1] for these products that adds some
extensions to RSS 2.0. If other people have new namespaces for RSS,
this would be a good place to let people know about them.

Dave

[1] http://microblog.reallysimple.org/

[Beau Simensen]

I started a discussion with disqus but figure this is probably more appropriate. Feel free to delete my comment if you like. :)

This looks great! Out of curiosity, why is the assumption made that the <link> is the short URL? Or rather, why not also/instead have <microblog:linkShort>?

[Dave Winer]

Thanks for the comment, and glad you like the namespace. :-)

It doesn't make that assumption. You could have a microblog:linkFull
element in an item even if the link wasn't shortened. All it's
claiming is that this link is not shortened, as far as the CMS knows.

Another way of looking at it -- in RSS 2.0, a guid element could have
the same value as the link. The presence of the guid doesn't say the
link couldn't also be a guid. It's just saying "use this one" if
you're looking for an id for this item.

Dave