Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Builder.com is reporting Google is reconsidering RSS. I have to say, after having dug through all this stuff for the last few weeks, I say bully for them. ATOM still seems great and all, but until one of the starndards groups takes over it is going to flounder. I mean, really, what good is a SOAP spec that you can't code against using any of the current SOAP implementations? A world gone mad, taken over by Perl hacks.

Not that RSS is a whole helluva lot more coherent -- people can't even agree on what RSS stands for, but with the Dublin Core namespace and the RSS 2.0 stuff in the RDF spec, it is a whole lot more coherent and easy-to-use than ATOM.

Given Google's general ascendancy anyway, not to mention their weight-throwing power as the "Blogger people", they really could step in here and help clean this mess up. I would love to see Google sit down with the IETF and fast track this though. Frankly, I have had it with Dave Winer's ego sigularly driving specifications.