Stamp Out Creativity Now. I am worried that the next-gen syndication process rooted in Sam’s Wiki is in danger of going seriously off the rails, because some of the participants have got the idea that it’s about trying to invent new technology or improve RSS.... [ongoing]

Tim Bray puts in his two cents or two bits or whatever about the recent rumblings about a new format.  Evidently, the A-List tech bloggers have nothing better to do than to innovate on the web ;-) faster than any of us can keep up with it.  How about getting RSS a lot more mainstreamed and adopted before we rewrite it?

Shouldn't we get RSS-using technologies embraced?  And how about some real tools for it?  Is it essential to have a ground-up redesign before it actually gets adopted?  Maybe some *subsets* of a syndication format should be created, that can be used when appropriate for a particular situation.  Or maybe some of the A-Listers should agree to disagree, diverge, innovate, and remerge at some future point.

Change is good; sometimes anyway.

Doug Ransom. Announce new aggie template [rss-dev]

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