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June 16, 2004
Go to the balcony
When I look closely at the goings-on between the syndication communities I sometimes wonder whether the time has come for us, the RSS users and developers of RSS tools, to unite in showing how we feel about all this.
I have no doubt that each community has valid points for his or her position, but (as I've said before) we're no longer interested. Move on.. We (I hope I'm speaking for at least one other person) have already grasped the way syndication formats and their components can change the way we use the Net for the better. We, the users, think that the ongoing fights between the two communities are damaging syndication formats in a way that may seriously delay the adoption of these formats by the Net at large and lead to widespread unrest and uncertainty. My suggestion to you is to meet together somewhere personally (you all spend so much time and energy verbally punching each other via the Net) and work together on making us, the users, happy. Life's too short.
So, while you're bitching over encoded HTML in description tags, take a moment and go to the balcony and take a look down on all this. And Get Past No. Please.
Posted by Matthew at June 16, 2004 09:27 PM
Comments
Good luck Matthew. Too much prestige is invested
in this fight for it to be resolved that easily.
Time will tell which formats survive and which fall
to the wayside. Until then, the users will suffer.
But that has happened before, and will happen again.
Let's hope that the suffering will be short ths
time.
Posted by: gustaf at June 16, 2004 11:06 PM