Tech Links

Introductory Links

• MSDN: All About Blogs and RSS

Specifications

• RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0

• Really Simple Syndiation (RSS) 2.0

• Atom Syndication Format (1.0)

• Podcasting and iTunes: Technical Specification

• Media RSS Specification

• TrackBack Technical Specification

• Pingback 1.0 Specification

• Comment API

• OPML Spec

• MetaWeblog API (I sure wish this spec specified the error messages and codes that might be returned.)

• Spec for common XML-RPC error codesGood idea, but does this have critical mass?

• Really Simple Discovery (RSD)Used by blogging tools to discover automate the posting of new blog entries.

Implementation Documentation

• Typepad Atom API

• Movable Type XML-RPC API

Articles and Notes

• Pingback vs. Trackback