The other day I said: “RSS is a melting pot of innovative thinking”. Alan replies: “Pretty soon it could be just a melted pot” with reference to the recent RSS-mess that Jon calls “this most tumultuous of the many tumultuous moments”.
When all is said and done, which seems to be not exactly around the corner, but a definite possibility (it’s not rocket science, guys), I hope that we will have a good XML-based standard format for simple syndication and event notification (blog updates, news, etc.).