Ah, How I Wish...

A year ago, Winer proposed RSS 2.0 as a joke (of course, this was still a year after RSS 2.0 was originally discussed). A little bit later, I said we should screw RSS 2.0 and go right to RSS 3.0, as Aaron Swartz has done. Now, a year later, Winer's prepared for RSS 2.0, RSS 3.0 already has a one-line Python parser, and Dan Brickley (who registered the RSS 3 mailing list a year ago) has a nice long email on the topic.

You think this stuff is confusing now? Que sera - we went through this years ago, foolio. I just wish Winer had kept his original promise: "Once this issue has been resolved, I'm getting out of RSS work." (June 4, 2001). Please, Dave! Show us your integrity! Go bye, bye!