Wisdom

With conflicting sources of truth, fall back to the baseline

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a lot of times what you do is you just default back to a sort of baseline. You say, Okay, well, alright, let's just do title. We know title works.

Episode 36: we're crawling on life away here. Maybe we are, maybe some other (approx., from transcript intro) 00:34:25 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

A feed can carry a dozen namespaces with overlapping tags, such as title and itunes:title, so every aggregator must decide which source of truth wins. Dave says you often default to the baseline that you know works for most shows, then adjust as problems surface.