Rodent Regatta

One of the new TypePad-powered weblogs is called Formerly Echo. It’s tracking the new syndication format work that has been going on.

An entry from earlier today points to Tristan Louis’s RSS2Necho parser. Tristan also sent me an email pointing to the tool.

Now, here’s my take on all of this. Work on the new format continues. Until it’s ”finished,” it makes no sense (to me) to convert my RSS feed to this Necho feed. Why? First, because I don’t think many of the feed readers are ready for it. They’re waiting as well. Second, unless you want to show both formats on your weblog, you’ll be shutting out those who read your weblog via an aggregator.

On second thought, maybe the right thing to do is to offer all the different feeds in a syndication area of the sidebar. Is this what it’s coming to:

• RSS 2.0 Excerpts
• RSS 2.0 Full
• RSS 2.0 Full with comments
• Necho Excerpts
• Necho Full
• Necho Full with comments
• RSS 1.0 Excerpts
• RSS 1.0 Full
• RSS 1.0 Full with comments

Is this where it’s all headed? Will we be making little buttons for each of these?

This shows just how little I understand about all of this. I think I’m ready for my weblogging tool to make some of these choices for me and build my sidebar accordingly!