WARNING: This post is about RSS, which is normally a pretty fluffy topic, but this article assumes you have a fairly technical appreciation for how it works.
I recently posted about what I hope is a trend to RSS feed bloggers’ articles into local community based social networks. If done correctly, this is a win-win. Blog article teasers can be automatically sucked in and recorded via RSS, providing a constant stream fresh content to the local social network with no effort other than the setup on the part of anyone, and the readers could be linked back to the original blog for full articles so that the blogger gets the traffic. This is the future and it will happen, and people like me can guide the process by pointing up the glitches. But there were a couple of mysterious things that I couldn’t figure out, (and I am pretty good at figuring things out.) I solved the mystery by talking directly to the people who wrote the software.
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In case you hadn’t heard, our local newspaper publishers (Gazette-Times/Democrat Herald owned by Lee Enterprises) have taken a giant step future-ward with the launch of the new