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WordPress developers are planning to drop RSS 0.92 and RDF / RSS 1.0 feeds from the blog engine.
Unless someone can provide a good reason not to - e.g., that there are people using it.

[wp-hackers] Ditch RDF and RSS 0.92

... We came to the conclusion that RDF and RSS 0.92 are basically way too old to still be in the WordPress core, so they should be removed. If they are sorely needed by someone a plugin can replace them.

I hope that RDF 1.0 will not be dropped - and there are many Semantic Web hackers who are using WordPress and the RDF feed that it produces.

These discussions are not without a bit of curiosity though - one of the commenters [to the related Trac issue #2277] suggested dropping Atom support as well - with a similar motivation: "+1 to ditch Atom too. Atom is a dead end technology. MS, AOL and Yahoo all chose RSS. Google is providing RSS and Atom. Plus, having several formats confuses users, and I cannot name a single feed reader who cannot understand both formats."

Welcome to California!

I am on an exchange visit to the Stanford University.
A side effect of that is enjoying this lovely location, learning about cool ideas and meeting people.

Had this been a news site, I'd have to say it's all old news by now. We have been here for almost a week and a lot has happened since then:

• learning how to get around Stanford (which is beautiful)
• meeting the Stanford Logic Group (hosts of our exchange)
• going to MacWorld Expo
• ... and a MAKE and #joiito Macworld meetup at the same location
• and learning about microformats (= the lower case semantic web) at the SDForum Emerging Tech SIG talk last Tuesday

Today was the first rainy day this week - which left me sitting at home and writing a blog. But if you do know about cool things to do in Palo Alto, places to go and so on - please share the knowledge.

I've created a LiveJournal blog - http://www.livejournal.com/users/captsolo/

Did I hear - finally?

Main purpose of that blog is to communicate with friends on LiveJournal, read their posts, comment, etc. So most of the interesting content will still be appearing over here. I also wonder (again) if I should have a Latvian blog - to keep in touch with friends in Latvia.

If someone wishes you can create a syndicated version of my blog on LiveJournal as well. And for Latvian users there is a syndicated account of this blog in Sviesta Ciba (KLAB.LV) at http://klab.lv/users/captsolo_rss/

Finally - you can find online the photos from Irish Geek Dinner with participation of Robert Scoble. My apologies it took so long.

See: Photo set "Irish Geek Dinner with Robert Scoble"

There you will find some charming photos of Maryamie and see some of Irish geek bloggers. Don't miss the cool T-shirt created by FrankP (see the photo above)!

These photos remind me now about the people we met at the dinner and the people we saw, but did not get a chance to chat with (for example, PR bloggers at the other end of the table). Oh, and the presentation of Robert's new book should be soon - hope there will be another geek blogger's event to honor it. This time in Palo Alto.