It's even worse than it appears..
Saturday, June 17, 2023
I'm doing more spelunking around Metaweblog API-land. Found a goldmine of past history in a site that I had decommissioned for some reason, listings.opml.org. So now it's back on the web and hopefully Google et al will index it soon. It'd be great to get this kind of stuff into an AI database. I hope products are coming soon to help us do this. 😄#
W3C and my RSS spec#
  • The W3C has a copy of my RSS 2.0 spec on their website. #
  • At the bottom of the original document it says: "The author of this document is Dave Winer, founder of UserLand software, and fellow at Berkman Center." Below that is a Creative Commons license which says: "The content found on this site is made available under the terms of an Attribution/Share Alike Creative Commons license."#
  • All of that is missing from the W3C's copy of my spec. #
  • It's pretty obvious that it's my writing. #
  • My name has been removed, as has the original license. #
  • That's wrong. They must fix that. My recommendation, just point the original document and forget about hosting a copy. The Harvard website is not going anywhere. #
Sell Reddit to its users?#
  • Reddit as a business is going down a user-hostile path. #
  • So I had this idea, I wonder if a compromise is possible.#
  • They want to do an IPO. Why not sell it to the users. #
  • A tech company run for the benefit of its users. What an idea! #
  • If ever there was a site that the users should own it's Reddit.#
  • Reddit could reboot as a non-profit or public benefit corp. #
  • Run intelligently to keep costs to a minimum.#
  • Get help from a foundation perhaps.#

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