[In Tim Bray's piece on RSS there's one technical issue raised (which media type to use for RSS) I'd tend to discount Infoworld in this case. But shouldn't one of these be chosen and included in the spec? (Update: Sam Ruby: It seems to me that it should match what you use on the link tag.
Other thoughts?)
As far as the business model for RSS aggregators goes... sure it's a natural to think that this should be in a browser... but I think that having a good rendering engine on the Mac is going to change this around. I think a lot of apps will become "browsers" with interfaces that make that type of data (whatever that is) easy to read and manipulate. I don't know if this is already common on other platforms, but it hasn't been on the Mac. And having smaller more focused apps that can be wired together via AppleEvents or by shared file formats is a model we know works. That's what I expect... Now whether there's a business there or not is another issue, relative to a number of other factors.]
* There's nothing like checking in with a "new" site and finding that little orange xml button that says "I grok RSS". Beautiful.
