RE: [syndication] Re: syndic8.com is now measuring feed quality of service

["Jeff Barr" <jeff@vertexdev.com>]

> What do people think about using a daemon to send an e-mail message 
> back to the feed 'authorities' upon finding validity issues?  
> Assuming, of course, that the daemon would be designed not to cause 
> an avalanche of repeating nag-o-grams.

I would like to start with some manual verification of the issue
first. I've found that site owners are very responsive to personal
bug reports. Several have told me "You are actually using my syndicated
feed? Cool!"

Note that we already have just about enough metadata to show
sites that they have a problem. Consider this page:

http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=14&Section=poll

I will add a way to get to the stored XML soon. 

I would be open to a semi-automatic form letter to broken sites.
Imagine a new syndic8 role called "Fixer". People in this role
would look for XML brokenness, understand it, and then have the 
option to press a button to generate an email to the site. They 
would have the chance to edit and personalize the message, and 
then send it. This is better than a deluge of messages. Sound
good?

Speaking of brokenness, could someone take a look at

	http://www.wigy-club.de/articles.rdf

Lots and lots of sites have this odd repeating TITLE.
Some CMS is generating this, and it looks really stupid.

Jeff;

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Kearney [mailto:wkearney99@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 10:20 AM
To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [syndication] Re: syndic8.com is now measuring feed quality of
service


> This means that every once and a while someone will enter invalid 
XHTML into the
> <description> and it will fail to parse.
> 
> Keeping track of this would provide a GREAT level of metadata.

Absolutely!  Being able to show examples goes a long way to being 
able to 'gently remind' the developers of the toolkits that it's 
worth doing validity checking. 

What do people think about using a daemon to send an e-mail message 
back to the feed 'authorities' upon finding validity issues?  
Assuming, of course, that the daemon would be designed not to cause 
an avalanche of repeating nag-o-grams.

-Bill Kearney


 

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