{"id":122,"date":"2003-03-18T22:54:36","date_gmt":"2003-03-18T22:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20030318225436"},"modified":"2003-06-30T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-30T23:21:00","slug":"18032003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2003\/03\/18032003\/","title":{"rendered":"Where did the images go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder why more people don&#8217;t use the image element of the RSS <a href=\"http:\/\/backend.userland.com\/rss#ltimagegtSubelementOfLtchannelgt\">specification<\/a>.  It&#8217;s been available since version 0.91 and is still there in 2.0, yet of the 17 feeds that my aggregator is currently collecting only 1 (my own weblog) has an image present.  The BBC RSS feeds have them, but that&#8217;s the only other place where I&#8217;ve seen them used.  You would imagine, given the popularity of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.favicon.com\/\">favicons<\/a>, that more sites would be interesting in being able to associate an image with their posts.<\/p>\n<p>As more of the major websites start using RSS we should hopefully see the use of images expand.  By using an image in their RSS feeds a publisher can avoid the problem of loosing brand identity (one new article among hundreds a user my have aggregated), and it provides an easy way for a user to quickly identify the source of a feed.  A good example of how this can work is the use of images on the friends pages of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/\">LiveJournal<\/a> (LJ), where each post has next to it the image selected by the LJ user who made the post.  It also shows a potential explanation for the lack of image use in RSS: even though my feed has an image, the LJ aggregator does not include it in the friends page.<\/p>\n<p>If aggregators do not support the image element it becomes a chicken and egg problem of few tools to display it, and few feeds bothering to supply it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder why more people don&#8217;t use the image element of the RSS specification. It&#8217;s been available since version 0.91 and is still there in 2.0, yet of the 17 feeds that my aggregator is currently collecting only 1 (my own weblog) has an image present. The BBC RSS feeds have them, but that&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}