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Syndication and its discontents

September 17th, 2003

Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger, expresses doubt that RSS will wind up as the mainstream vehicle for syndication of content. I agree, although, for better or worse, it’s pretty much all that we have for now.

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  1. Alan Levine
    September 17th, 2003 at 23:34 | #1
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    Evan’s opinion carries little weight IMHO – he writes on a blog that has no syndication at all, co-founder of a product with ditto.
    C’mon- syndication is in its infancy, and “pundits” are expecting a one-click functionality grandma could use? This is the web in 1994 or email in 1984.

  2. l.m.orchard
    September 18th, 2003 at 00:05 | #2
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    He’s syndicated here: http://www.evhead.com/rss.xml
    Not sure why there’s no fluorescent orange button linking to it, or any autodiscovery there, but I found it via blo.gs, so I imagine a few people watch it: http://blo.gs/most-watched.php
    And, he’s a part of Blogger, now owned by Google. I would think that’d swing some influence eventually. I’m assuming a lot, but I expect Google to ease into the whole syndication/blog thing once everyone’s settled down a bit.
    As for Blogger blogs at large, I’m not sure where syndication stands with them since it was a Pro-only feature. But now supposedly Pro’s been rolled into the standard offering. (http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=290&query=rss&topic=0&type=f)

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