James Cridland of Podnews created a modern feed with the podcasts from Trade Secrets, the show Adam Curry and I did in 2004-2005 during in the first wave of podcasting. I've loaded it into FeedLand. And James loaded it into Podfriend. It's great to have this stuff resurrected in a form that people interested in the formation of podcasting, journalists and historians we hope, can learn from. Thanks James! I hope he does the same with my Morning Coffee Notes podcast, which precedes Trade Secrets, and documents developments in the summer of 2004. #RSS 2.0 which was 20 years old last year salutes its parent, XML, 25 years old today. A powerful family of open technologies for interop.#
This has been an incredibly stressful week for me. It was supposed to be the week we launched testing of feedlandInstall, enough of a stretch on its own, but it also simultaneously became the week that Drummer had to be converted to a new identity system and HTTPS, all happening at the same time, thanks to the implosion of the API at Twitter. It's okay, it is what it is. I went into it with my eyes open, I knew there could be a day when we had to quickly get out of TwitterVille. 😄#- This added some extra chaos to the feedlandInstall process because the products share a package called daveappserver, and I had to make changes to how it works to get Drummer working, and there was a risk of FeedLand breakage as a result, and some breakage has occurred.#
- We will get there. A new Drummer without Twitter for identity and a new open source release of FeedLand's server so a thousand instances can bloom. Everyone will want to be part of a FeedLand workgroup the same way they are joining Mastodon instances. Communities of feed readers serving larger communities of news users. #