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I try catching up on reading of what’s happening in RSS World.

Mark Pilgrim: How to consume RSS safely, Mark’s little prank showing RSS exploit and advice on 10 HTML tag stripping.

Some background: RSS Validator ContainsScript, Minimize the use of HTML in descriptions, Thinking about RSS, RSS Best Practices, More on evolvable formats, What is an RSS description?, rss output

Simon Willison: Safely consuming RSS: RegExps don’t cut it

Sam Ruby: Don Box’s RSS Profile, Don Box’s original post.

Dave Winer: I read a piece yesterday about SixApart and their standards compliance. Interesting, but they do RSS in a funky way.; funky

Sam Ruby: Funky RSS?. RSS flame war?

Aaron Swartz: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place for Specs

Dave Winer: Why I said Movable Type’s RSS support is ‘funky’. (Let’s get ready, now, Next step in syndication technology)

Chris Sells proposes an additional element for CommentAPI. Sam Ruby’s blog on it: 1, 2, 3. Joe Gregorio’s take

Sam Ruby: Anatomy of a Well Formed Log Entry

Mark Pilgrim: The Ws of weblogging

Tim Bray: Pie

My eye hurt…and my brain explode… I should back to listen more Leonard Cohen.