History Revisioning

I'm saddened to actually waste the time to write this complaint formally, but if there's any moment to be happy about being too busy to work on AmphetaDesk, I'd say it's now. The syndication scene has become insanely disgusting to me of late - enough so that I'm thinking my meagre time and effort should be devoted entirely elsewhere. Wasn't it two or three years ago where we had all manner of people coming out of the woodworks to invent new standards designed be the "end all, be all, peace pipe, white doves don't poop in my backyard" of the whole RSS mess, secure in the knowledge that they, and they alone, were the saviors of syndication? A quick search recalls Extremely Simple Syndication, no better than any of the other attempts I seem to remember (and those with better memories will flood my box with the others). It got so ridiculous that Aaron Swartz created RSS 3.0, an entirely non-XML format. And now, as history is so wont to do, we've got SDF, yet another yet another. This is getting absolutely ridiculous. Hey! You over there, the one with illusions of grandeur? Shut the fuck up: you're nothing but a re-run.

In other "oh, look, I opened a door to shit I flushed out my toilet years ago!" news, we've also got the idiotic results of a contest to rename RSS. The winner? "Webfeed". Ugh, as John Stossel milks like an anxious teat: gimme a break!