I am actually thinking that we should keep pushing for a single standard. One that will enable all of us to achieve a true RSS MIME type. It might take some time, however in the long term I think that the syndication world will be better off.

Jason Young posed a question on Workbench recently:

I have followed the whole RSS soap opera from even well before Mark Pilgrim was writing snarky posts about Winer numbers. I’ve actually taken more than one opportunity to call it “Internet Jerry Springer” among my IT colleagues and others that I was evangelizing syndication (and RSS) to — and that was prior to the 2006 events with the Advisory Board and what I feel is inexplicable behavior from Winer.

The whole hullabaloo has the group of people I work with (a National web effort targeting information coming out of the US land-grants and the cooperative extension system) thinking of solely Atom, and where we say RSS — we really are referring to Atom. Our web apps are going to encourage Atom, produce Atom, consume Atom, etc. Almost entirely after watching the continued craziness surrounding its use.

I admire and respect your work, your tenacity, your continued evangelistic zeal in what you do here, and elsewhere in the things you write about. So I guess this whole rambly comment is to ask - why are you even sticking with this RSS thing? Why not take that energy and put it behind something with what seems far less “Springer Factor”?

This isn’t a troll. It’s a serious curiousity on my part. Source: Workbench