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<outline text="More Pubsubhubbub feedback" created="Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:25:09 GMT">
<outline text="<img src="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2009/07/11/harmonica.jpg" width="175" height="468" border="0" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" alt="A picture named harmonica.jpg">When I travel to Europe, I wonder why they couldn't just do electric plugs the same way we do in the US. That way I wouldn't have to carry an adapter and I'd be able to plug in more than one device at a time. I wish their cell phones worked the same way ours do (I gather they do now, somewhat) and that billing worked the same (I'll let you know when the bill from my June trip arrives). When I travel to London I wish they had the good sense to drive on the correct side of the road. " created="Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:26:09 GMT"/>
<outline text="Each of these inconveniences were caused by engineers thinking they didn't "have to" worry about the way things were done before. They were right, they didn't have to, and all future users paid for their insistence. Think how much better it would all have worked if they cared. " created="Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:40:05 GMT"/>
<outline text="And some things are, thankfully, the same. For example -- a wifi router is the same in Europe and the US. The Euro is a way of rolling up currency incompatibilities, although some countries in Europe, Denmark, the UK and Switzerland, aren't on board. But think about all the trouble they've gone to get that compatibility. What if they had been compatible from the start? " created="Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:34:16 GMT"/>
<outline text="Anyway, how does this apply to notification?" created="Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:35:47 GMT"/>
<outline text="Googler <a href="http://friendfeed.com/davew/1423207a/more-low-tech-approach-to-ping-hubs">DeWitt Clinton asked</a> for Feedback on Friendfeed's proposal for notification, which is different from Google's. I'm already confused! Both of them are different from the weblogs.com method which is now almost ten years old (and deployed in every blogging app and CMS out there)." created="Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:25:17 GMT"/>
<outline text="I make the same suggestion to them that I made to the IETF when they were embarking on Atom. I offered that they should start with RSS 2.0 and change whatever they felt they can't live with, and document their rationales. They didn't take my advice, so now we're in this silly situation where there are two names for everything. What RSS calls an <item>, Atom calls a <froofraw> (or whatever, I can never remember)." created="Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:26:23 GMT"/>
<outline text="2003: <a href="http://essaysfromexodus.scripting.com/stories/storyReader$2070">Prior art as a design method</a>." created="Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:38:45 GMT"/>
<outline text="So, if you're working on notification, I suggest starting with <a href="http://oldweblogscomblog.scripting.com/directory/11/howToPing">weblogs.com pinging</a> with <a href="http://oldweblogscomblog.scripting.com/changesXml">changes.xml</a> as your output, and then change whatever you feel you can't live with, and document your rationales. That way what you end up with will be minimally different from what's already out there, and future implementers won't curse us for not having the sense to have one way to do things. (That's right, they'll curse all of us, they won't know or care who went first.)" created="Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:29:26 GMT"/>
<outline text="Now, if forced to make a choice, I'd probably go with Pubsubhubbub for three reasons: 1. It's at least XML, even if it's not RSS. 2. They say they'll support RSS, giving a sense of being in touch with the world they live in. 3. It's Google, so they have a certain amount of sway with users and developers. However, neither of them adopts the prior art method of format design outlined above. If either of them did, I wouldn't even have to make a choice." created="Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:27:30 GMT"/>
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