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Welcome to reallysimple.org

By Dave Winer on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 9:27 AM.

They say all the good domain names are taken, but in my experience a lot of good ones are still available. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

http://reallysimple.org/  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I'm using the acquisition of this domain as an excuse to add a feature to Scripting2 that allows me to map a domain to a blog post, as a placeholder. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I like this domain because the term "really simple" is starting to show up in marketing slogans. It caught on. All because RSS needed a name that made sense to human beings way back in 2001. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

They also say the shorter the name the better. But names get conceptually shortened as they get more familiar. Every year since 2001, as the name "Really Simple Syndication" was repeated, the idea of "really simple" became easier to say and recognize as something good. So while the name has a lot of letters in its name, that's only in a technical way. The two words in it are very short, as concepts. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

BTW, there's a bug in my domain mapping software that I will fix shortly. I have to go to a meeting right now. So for a little bit the placeholder site (this page) is not mapping correctly. Still diggin! ;-> Permanent link to this item in the archive.




  
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A picture named dw.jpgDave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.

"The protoblogger." - NY Times.

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"The father of blogging and RSS." - BBC.

"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly.

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To-Do

Browser-based prefs page.

Editing the glossary.

Edit This Page buttons.

Set up a "user" on redirect2.twitterland.net called "Scripting2" to handle all r2.ly shortened links for Scripting2 users.

Previewing a post before publishing (a Publish button, possibly replaces the Build RSS button).

There are attributes on outlines that aren't correct.

Proper change notes reporting on scripting2.com.

Getting ready for 1 or 2 non-Dave users. (Prepare for this by starting a second blog.)

As an outline leaves the OPML Editor, change the type attribute of non-standard types to be namespaced, to conform to the OPML 2.0 spec.

Right-click menu in editor.

Images.

One template or two?

Template library.

The CMS should be fully time-zone-aware. (Some of the functions already are, and there's a routine, getLocalTime, that converts server time to the author's idea of the time.)

Use windowtypes so Cmd-S and Control-S do a proper save (to the server, causing a rebuild).

Track clicks on the + icon that expands sub-text.

Add a Revert button to outline editing windows.

Paragraph permalinks run off serial number.

Done

Paragraph-level permalinks as a pref.

Added a mini XML icon under the blogroll linking to the OPML.

When opening the blogroll, stylesheet or a template locally, if we already have the outline locally we don't get it from the server. If it's already open in a window we just bring it to the front.

Added discovery link for blogroll in both templates. Add discovery link for story source OPML to story pages.

Added day of week to byline text and the "last updated" text on the home page.

The day level Next/Prev links were all fucked. The AddPost routine was initializing the links whether or not the post was new. Now it only does it if they are new. Wrote a utility to fix all the links in case we ever need it again.

We save the templates to the site, and include a comment (automatically generated) in the HTML that says where they are. This way you get a View Source capability for all Scripting2 blogs, automatically. It is on by default but there is a pref as well.

Click on a permalink on a story page, now you go to the beginning of the paragraph, instead of the end. There was confusion between the two uses of the same ID.

The blogroll is saved to the website as an OPML file.

scripting2.com placeholder site is up.

New Tweet button in the Editor window.

When you change the title of a story the URL stays the same.

When you create a new story the previous story is rebuilt because its Next link changed.

The first time you update in a day, all the other pages in the month are now rebuilt because their calendars have a new day.

On the home page, the most recent day's stories are expanded, all other stories are collapsed.

There's now a UI for editing the stylesheet. It synchs immediately when you save it.

When you save the blogroll the Home page is rebuilt.

The blogroll is now editable.

Third-level text is implemented (it was #9 on the original to-do list).

Display bugs in expand/collapse on home page were fixed (#13 on the original list).


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