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unmediated: "XSPF is a playlist format designed for shareability. RSS is a personal journal format designed for shareability. RSS with enclosures is a personal journal with ancillary audio or video."

I wonder how many of the 1500 or so people that get my podcasts actually care about this distinction.

There are always "more efficient" ways of doing things. There are always a million "other" ways to "do things". Isn't it more important to "do things" than it is to pick apart "other things"?

Fish or fowl, I don't much care. The important things is that I'm able to do a really cool thing that wasn't possible a few weeks ago. If developers can figure out a better way to do it and integrate it into my work flow in such a way that it doesn't upset my teacup, then fine. But in the meantime, please take your fish with legs and squirrels with fins back to their pens and out of my hair - I'm having far too much fun with my platypus.

See this post as it first appeared on Blogware.