I've followed Derek Sivers for a while and am fancinated by his work, musings and ability to tell stories. If you don't know who Derek is then I recommend you:
- Watch these two TED talks Keep your goals to yourself and How to start a movement
- read Anything You Want
- Visit his website
A feature of his website that I find rather interesting is a page he maintains called Now where he roughly maintains the following information
- "Quote"
- Location
- Professional title
- What do you do?
- Why?
- What should we read?
- URLs
on what he's up to these days. Over the years others have adopted the idea and there's now a collection of Now pages at NowNowNow.com. You can also follow their Twitter feed.
While building the new Anomaly website I thought it would be a good idea to add one for the business to tell people what we are working on these days. While reading about Now I realised that Derek intends Now pages to be for individuals. The crux of the idea is that it's your snapshot!
I had a spark where I thought, hey this ought to be something like an RSS feed. I reached out to Derek on Twitter asking him:
.@sivers is there a syndication protocol for @NowNowNow?
to which he replied
Not yet, but I'd love to hear what you'd like from it. Email me? https://sive.rs/contact
To be respectful of his time, I decided to put propose (or the germ there of) a standard before I emailed him. This repository contains the RFC and some samples.
My ideas are heavily inspired by Apple's approach to Podcast feeds:
This project is licensed under the MIT license.