MSN Spaces Implements RSS 'Last Modified'

By Nathan Weinberg
Expert Author
Article Date: 2006-03-14

Seeing that MSN Spaces RSS feeds were having issues in Bloglines, looking like they were changing constantly due to dynamic elements, MSN Spaces introduced a new field to their feeds:

dcterms:modified

Any RSS reader can check that field to see when the last time an item was modified, and if it hasn't changed, everything else is ignored. A good fix, but one I'd rather get handled by an industry-standard RSS field. Maybe it'll happen eventually, and maybe this'll be this. I just know I'll be glad when I go into Bloglines and I don't see every Spaces feed pretending to have 30 new items.

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