What I found with the technorati crawler was that the atom timestamps were mroe reliabel than RSS, as RSS timezones were underspecified.
Talking of hAtom, here's a tool that uses it: http://googlenotebookblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/permalinks-up-and-hatom.html Niall told em last night that he's submitted a patch to MT 4.1 that will make it output hAtom too. On Jan 17, 2008 4:05 PM, Kevin Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not so. The Internet Archive knows the first time they've seen an URL, > > over the past ten years; they can also tell you when the content has > > significantly changed. Obviously, there is a bias towards pages (and > > sites) with higher traffic, but that seems reasonable if you're > > evaluating standard practices. ~ Derrick Pallas > > Yes... but it would suffer from crawler priority bias. > > If it was a low ranked page it might take a few month to get around to > crawling it. > > Spinn3r would have better data here because we're real time.... > Observing the URL and hAtom timestamp as I mentioned before would be > nice but would suffer from bias again. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss