Dancing About Architecture

Well, the entry the other day about microfeeds got me thinking that I should be eating my own dog food. If they're such a good idea, why don't I have any? So, I've done a little feed maintenance and added an RSS 2.0 "Microfeed" to each entry. This microfeed contains the comments and trackbacks made on that entry, so if there's some entry you want to keep track of you can go ahead and subscribe to its microfeed.

As I mentioned in the post the other day, if you're using a traditional 3-pane RSS reader you'll probably find all of these microfeeds more trouble than they're worth. But who knows what other clients might show up that can deal with these in an almost transparent fashion. I think what I'd like to do is define an extension (in its own namespace, of course) that allows a microfeed to point to its parent feed, which could be a valuable hint for a client that knew how to deal with a parent-child relationship between feeds. I'm assuming this doesn't exist right now -- please correct me if I'm wrong.

I also created a blog-wide comments feed in case you're interested.