The last few days, when I log in to check my feed usage, FeedBurner tells me how many subscribers I have but claims I had no item views and no item clicks the previous day. Some indeterminate time later in the day the real stats magically appear. Are they having trouble completing the “big crunch” [...]

I’ve been interested in P2P approaches to syndication for a while, and FeedTree is a research project offering one solution to the problem. This poster provides a good overview of how the system works. A more detailed technical description is available here. In a nutshell, an HTTP proxy on each reader’s machine becomes a node [...]

There’s probably no completely painless way to deal programmatically with the tangled mess of syndication formats, but the Rome project is looking promising. Unlike the Jakarta Commons FeedParser, Rome not only parses feeds but also provides: RSS-specific, Atom-specific, and generalized object models–handy if you want to persist feeds after you’ve parsed them; generators for all [...]