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23 May 2005
FOAF, not Neutrino
Phil Wilson explains why one should use FOAF and not Neutrino. I do not think his comments on OPML are very good. Because it is already used for a BlogRoll, you can not use it for a PersonalFeedRoll. It is indeed a problem that OPML can be used for anything. But then prohibit it’s usage is yet another thing. Maybe they should not have used OPML in the first place. But the fact that is that it can be used. Danny Ayers talks about OPML autodiscovery. That seems to fix OPML even further. Maybe it is time to talk about BlogRollOPML.
Phil Wilson likes FOAF for a PersonalFeedRoll. I agree with him there. I see FOAF more as a personal profile. But his comments on using autodiscovery instead of the PersonalFeedRoll I do not understand. I like autodiscovery to designate the associated feeds, but it is not a method to present the all the feeds a users has (I have 10 feeds Atom and RSS). The argument that the URL might change is bullshit. Anything might change. Time to have a PermaURI, which generates a FOAF-file based on the latest information.
In a comment to that post Philip Ringnalda defends Neutrino, mainly with the idea that one should be able to subscribe to the PersonalBlogRoll. But then it should go to my FOAF. Is equally good and a more preferred method. Anything that I want to publish should be in my FOAF and anybody that wants to know something about me should look there.