Re: [syndication] Automatically Transforming Blog or HTML Content into XML

["Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@ideaspace.net>]

> LJ also doesn't call itself a 'blog', and there are significant #s of
> genre features that tend to make people think that their "journals" might
> be something different than "blogs".
>
> these are pretty important distinctions...

Important to who?  To a developer flogging their divine vision of what a weblog
"is"?  Sure, then it's possible to call all sorts of things "not blogs".  But
fundamentally the majority of "things thought of as weblogs" are largely little
more than good old fashioned 'personal websites' dressed up behind some nice
content handling tools.

> yeah.  semantics are important here - a high % of blog tools used
> (counting users, not tools) don't do RSS, but a high % of blog tools
> (counting % of all tools, not of all users) *do* do RSS.

I *strongly* disagree with the idea that "a high percentage of blog tools used
don't do RSS".  That's fundamentally just not correct.

But we're debating a point here without having an accurate list of what's being
considered a "blog tool".