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Readership, Blogging, Trends and statistically smoothing the samplings...

I'm pretty sure I've seen a couple of messages go by where the author's of various blogs were worried about a decline in readership. There was one yesterday that particularly caught my eye because the immediate response from the author was, "What are...

Existing RSS 2.0 features I'd like to see blogging systems support.

First I'd like for the systems to support the <category> element. I've blogged about this a number of times and a taxonomy for organizing entries on a grander scale than by feed is definitely needed. I know I post up to 3 items a day at times and...
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Xml in the WebBrowser? What about easy RSS in the WebBrowser in Whidbey?

A fellow blogger has been talking about hosting the web browsing components of IE as an ActiveX Control. With Whidbey this all goes away and you can now use the Windows Forms 2.0 WebBrowser control. It just drops into place, has a bunch of events for...

How do you store your RSS? A look at XmlDocument, aggregation, sorting, and XPathDocument

Tools that download and use RSS are getting more and more common. I've gone through and done some RSS style aggregation myself, and I have to wonder what tools people use when they implement any form of RSS aggregator. I use .NET and the System.Xml namespace...
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Blog Implementations, commenting, and why everything isn't quite as good as it should be...

I've only been blogging for a short time compared to a large number of early adopters in the technology. While people tend to synonimize RSS with blogging, it really isn't, since the delivery mechanism, isn't necessarily as important as the large numbers...
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Large scale RSS aggregation, categorization, and publication dates...

I was listening to a post by Darren Neimke when he said there should be a set of global categories you could apply your blog postings to. While I think this is possibly a tool that many people would abuse I do agree that with the right controls it could...
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