Dare Obasanjo: There's a lot of innovation and interesting end user applications that can be built on RSS today. However many XML syndication geeks are prideful and would rather reinvent the wheel than use existing technology to solve real world problems.
Randy: Sometimes Dare throws in a comment or two that hit all over. Well done! I have pretty much ignored the Atom project these last few months. I've also noticed a large tail off in activity on the Atom mailing list. There use to be 50 to a 100 posts per day on the list, now there's sometimes less than a dozen. Also, I haven't heard much from the RSS doesn't scale gang.
Randy