The Structure of Blogging

Posted By: 
Andy Yaco-Mink
Posted On: 
Wednesday, June 25th, 2003

In response to a confusing jumble of loosely specified RSS versions and potentially nasty problems stemming from those specs, a week or so ago Sam Ruby started a conversation about a better format. Sam has created a wiki and many developers have begun hammering out the anatomy of a well formed log entry. The emerging spec, possibly named Pie, looks like it could work. The list of potential supporters includes Mena Trott of Movable Type, Tim Bray (an editor/author of the XML spec), and people from LiveJournal and Blogger.