It’s the only way to efficiently track updates to websites.

If sites are removing RSS feeds, I am at a loss to understand why.

Dave Winer, who has been involved in the development of RSS, has also responded to Felicia’s post.

Now Tumblr, inspired by WordPress, has introduced a Twitter compatible API.

Dave Winer says: “If Facebook were to implement the Twitter API that would be it. We’d have another FTP or HTTP or RSS”.

If it was also added to the self hosted WordPress, the case would be even stronger for the Twitter API becoming a new open standard.

• Why the open strategy is a good idea [Matt McAlister] Matt thinks “we’re on the cusp of an explosion of open strategies and concepts across all markets, not least of which is the publishing world”.
• 1,000 web APIs [ProgrammableWeb] “Last week ProgrammableWeb crossed one of its biggest milestones thus far when we added the 1,000th web service API to our API directory.”
• Prototyping with XHTML [Boxes and Arrows] “Leverage code as a design and specification platform.”
• The week that Britain’s culture wars broke out [Observer] “The BBC’s attempts to create cross-generational entertainment have opened up new fault lines.”
• SERTUC conference on PSB [BECTU] “The South Eastern Regional TUC‘s Creative and Leisure section, is organising a conference on the future of public service broadcasting … on Saturday 15 November 2008.” Update 10 November 2008 at 1607: The conference has been postponed.

• MPs, step away from the internet [Charles Arthur - Comment is free]
• Music beta and linked data [BBC Radio Labs]
• Gears, BrowserPlus, and Web 3.0, baby [Yahoo Developer Network blog]
• Things to consider when using WordPress as a CMS [Devlounge]
• Oh happy day – the new Delicious is here [Delicious blog]
• Londoners not paying for Oyster Card failures [Going Underground's Blog]

• Lost tapes of the Dr Who composer [BBC News]
• Announcing the Open Web Foundation [Open Web Foundation]
• Twitter searches for the next step [Technology Guardian]
• Wider, bigger, better [BBC Radio Labs]
• If you want to repeat Apollo, do it right [New Scientist Space Blog]

• WordPress 2.6 [WordPress development blog]
• iPhone 3G: fail [James Cridland]
• Geeks make public presentations fun again [ReadWriteWeb]
• The Royal Mail PAF, that old chestnut [Rob Dunfey]
• An ESB for the Web? [O'Reilly Radar]
• Media 100 2008 [Guardian]

• Call for web to stay open for all [BBC]
• NBC uses Olympics as research lab [Variety]
• Open Tech 2008 [Jeremy Keith]
• Commons motion to free postcodes [Puffbox]
• What to do? [Cameron Hunt]
• ‘Linking here’ lists with Google feed API [Puffbox]
• Opera Web Standards Curriculum [Opera]

• Why the BBC removed Microformat DateTime patterns from bbc.co.uk… [BBC Internet Blog]
• DateTime design pattern [Microformats wiki]
• Gestures are the new multi-touch? [Ben Hanbury]
• Pies are great [Neil McIntosh]

• Warning to copyright enforcers: Three strikes and you’re out [Guardian]
• Hackers fan the flames of imagination at Mashed [Guardian]
• London SearchMonkey Developer Evening a great success [Yahoo Developer Network blog]
• Firefox download record official [BBC]
• The machine that copies itself [Guardian]
• Merger forms transatlantic union [BBC]

• The simple joys of web-scale identifiers [BBC Radio Labs]
• You may not be able to identify each of the 15,000 improvements to Firefox, but you’ll like version 3.0 [Guardian] (Agreed!)
• Integrating social media into a web content strategy [Digital Web Magazine]
• Jay-Z goes head to head with Noel Gallagher at Glastonbury [NME]