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		<outline created="Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:02:26 GMT" text="Case study in extending RSS">
			<outline created="Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:02:32 GMT" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2010/02/01/loverss.jpg&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; height=&quot;150&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named loverss.jpg&quot;&gt;My mother, who has a WordPress blog, keeps telling me about posts that I haven't seen. This was starting to irk me, so I looked into &lt;a href=&quot;http://newsriver.org/river2.html&quot;&gt;River2&lt;/a&gt; to see what's going on. Yes, it is finding her posts, but it thinks they're pictures. Why? Because the feed says they're pictures. Oy. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:03:37 GMT" text="Digging in a little deeper. WordPress has a neat feature that I don't fully understand, called &quot;gravatars.&quot; If you have one, as my mother does, it attaches it to every post, as an image. I'm sure she has absolutely no idea what a gravatar is, and I'm equally sure that WordPress created one for her automatically. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:04:47 GMT" text="So, I want to fix this, so her posts (and those of other WordPress authors) show up where they belong in River2. Other than looking at the URL of the image, I have no idea how to do it. I'm hoping one of the readers of this blog does."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:05:42 GMT" text="Here's an example from the feed."></outline>
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			<outline created="Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:05:54 GMT" text="They use the media:content element to represent the gravatar. I have a strong feeling this is very wrong. It seems to me that a gravatar is a bit of metadata. Why should it be represented as an image, why not as a &amp;lt;gravatar&gt; in a new namespace defined for the purpose of representing gravatars?"></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:07:25 GMT" text="The media:content element came into being to help Flickr attach pictures to items in feeds. It probably was a mistake, in hindsight, to try to make a general namespace for this, because it gets us into jams like this. Probably would have worked better if they had come up with a &amp;lt;flickr:picture&gt; element. That way we might not have had this conflict in semantics."></outline>
			<outline text="&amp;lt;media:content url=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2785/4317723874_9ac5cf85e5_o.jpg&quot;   type=&quot;image/jpeg&quot;  height=&quot;1880&quot;  width=&quot;2816&quot;/&gt;"></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:09:20 GMT" text="I'm pretty stuck here. I really need to separate pictures from non-picture items (I subscribe to some awesome picture feeds, and they would completely swamp my news-oriented feeds). It looks like I'm going to have to check if the image comes from gravatar.com. That's a &lt;i&gt;terrible&lt;/i&gt; way to parse metadata."></outline>
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