BAD FEEDS
Is it time to start listing the producers of BAD RSS FEEDS? Since working on podcast.com and parsing the world of RSS out there, it is plain to see that MANY people are doing so many things WRONG!
What really annoys me is that many of these feeds are being created by people who are PAID to do it RIGHT. How did they get the job?
So - should I start listing the offenders (possibly using a forum software presentation - with ‘fixing threads’ ) and set about HELPING these offenders? I think so - as it’s clear that even publishers like the Times Online still can’t get RSS feeds right (on their podcasts) - spot the error.
It looks like lots of new podcasts have spung up - on the ‘me too’ tip, yet the person who stood up and said ‘I can do it!’ and got the gig - can’t - at least not CORRECTLY 
Todd Cochrane also chips in on a comment to a post by Nick Bradbury about this topic. Maybe blubrry will have some solutions?
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[…] Every once in a while Kosso starts bitching and moaning about the ridiculously poor quality of many feeds. He is at it again, and I feel his pain, but what can we do? It sometimes seems as if people who create feeds not only ignore all existing feeds, but deliberately try to come up with ways of screwing them up. It’s like some kind of passive-aggressive rebellion against the rest of the world. Aggregator publishers indulge them in this, by continually adapting to the garbage they find in feeds, and down we go in an ever worsening spiral. Should we just reject bad feeds as unreadable as the XML/Semantic Web purists insist? If we try this approach, users will just blame us for having “bugs” that can’t read their perfectly good feeds. I think complaining about the quality of feeds is like complaining about the weather in Boston, or London for that matter, two cities that Kosso calls home. If it makes you feel better, then go ahead, but don’t expect the situation to ever improve. Filed under: General by Adam Green | […]
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