I came across this post from Mark Nottingham on what RSS needs. I’ve written before about my conflicting feelings towards RSS, and I think having a body responsible for interoperability between feed readers as Nottingham suggests could address some of those issues; if there was a standard for handling footnotes and web components, for example. The web is a really rich publishing platform, and the only place the format is more denuded than RSS is email. Of course, this is also a feature of f...
