Me-meme feed
On a lark, I wrote a small script to convert planet Intertwingly’s memes.json file to Atom format. At the present time, this file contains no information not present in the JSON file (though to make this work, I did have to add a date field to the JSON file), but at this point it is just intended as a proof of concept, and realistically both artifacts could evolve separately.
Along the way, I made a number of design decisions that I’d appreciate feedback on.
For starters, the feed will always contain 10 entries, but the order of the entries is not fixed. The title and alternate link for each entry will reflect the article that people are pointing to; but each entry will be assigned a separate and stable id. Question: would rel=related be more accurate?
Additions of new references will be treated as a significant update, any other change (including dropping off of old references) will not.
The content of each meme entry will reflect the title and links of all the recent weblog entries which contain links to this URI. Suggestions on how to make this information more semantic and more useful would be welcome.
The feed itself is valid, though from time to time the most recent link to a given entry may be from one of the homogeneous daily links entries, meaning that there may be multiple entries with the same value for atom:updated.