Blogging Roller

Over the past couple of years, I've been scanning my photo collection using a HP slide/negative scanner. My dad, who is an excellent photographer, has been scanning his collection as well. So, to add a little life to this tired old blog, I'm going to start taking advantage of my .Mac account (no longer active) and posting each week a photo from my collection or my dad's collection. Here is the first one:

Jamaican carwash - My old VM Golf in the carwash close to Ocho Rios, Jamaica

I've been researching newsfeed formats for various reasons. I've been using Rome to convert to and from various formats and that revealed a problem with Roller's RSS feed. After re-reading the loosey goosey RSS specs, I'm thinking that I it wrong in the Roller RSS feeds. What do you think? Currently, Roller uses the following elements for links:

• <guid isPermaLink="true"> - the permalink
• <link> - the (optional) source link, i.e. the one link that the blog entry is about

After looking at some Radio generated RSS 2.0 feeds, seems like Roller should do this:

• <link> - the permalink
• <guid isPermaLink="true"> - the permalink, same as <link>
• <source url="[url of source]"> - the (optional) source link

Have the permalink in two places (link and guid) seems silly. Should we drop guid entirely? Putting the source link in the source element seems like right think to do, but the spec says the source url "links to the XMLization of the source" - that is, the source url should point to an RSS feed. Is that the common usage of the source element?

I'm sitting on some very big news for Roller and for me, but I have to tell some other folks about it before I can tell you.