Can I get my referer lists as RSS feeds from the "Radio Community Server"?

Can we make the list a rolling 24 or 25 hours instead of a clean sweep at midnight?

[aka Blue Sky Radio]

Dan Rosenbaum riffs on Masukomi's call for more weblog security.

It's like I said a few weeks ago: this weblog thing is neat, but if it's going to be a real business tool, some authorization/password tools have to be invented.

Casual readers won't know this, but there are some pretty sophisticated technologies behind his weblog. For one thing, every item I write here is automatically sent to any other weblog reader who's asked to be kept up to date. Those bloggers can then pick up and reprint (for lack of a better word) my items.

But what if I only want some of my items to be syndicated, or if I want some items to be syndicated to one group of people but not another? As one poster pointed out, it's possible to use the web's built-in authentication tools, but that's god-awful hack. Finally, someone else is picking up the banner.

From Masukomi's site:

A username and password scheme could be built into the url of the feed but that's a really poor method. The most obvious solution is for RSS clients to start supporting two things: standard HTTP authentication and secure HTTP over SSL (https:// connections).

Until this happens RSS will not be able to evolve beyond the stage of a simple news distribution system... I know I don't want to give everyone access to my e-mail, or confidential company info, but I do want to transmit via an RSS feed. I think that this is especially important for products like Radio that generate RSS feeds and want to get companies to use it as a knowledge management tool.

I can't support this more strongly. If weblogs are going to be a legit business tool, there simply needs to be better security for syndication feeds.

Security is often a checklist item until something horrible happens. Neither lawsuits, stalkers, insider trading, nor other scandal have fallen at klog's door. Now is a good time to start planning for what we're going to call bare-bones security in 2003.

• Virus scanning for enclosures?
• Authenticated access to rss? Peer authentication?
• Secure http?
• Encrypted file storage?

Anything we can learn from Groove's security?

[aka Blue Sky Radio]