The Echo Project
Sam Ruby,
Jun 26, 2003
This is very interesting, and either the harbinger of peace in the RSS and content syndication communities (unlikely) or of open conflict (more likely) between those who support Dave Winer's approach to syndication, and those who don't. Tentatively named 'Echo,' this site contains initial discussion and advocacy toward rebuilding content syndication from the ground up. It's mostly a good idea, except that the RSS 'brand' and format is already well entrenched, and because it is, essentially, yet another 'fork' in syndication languages (which makes the tally two for Dave Winer (Userland format, RSS 2.0) and two for his opponents (RSS 1.0 and Echo). But hey - this is what I have always said would and should happen with metadata formats (no "one standard for all", remember?) and so I'll just roll with it. Educational metadata organizations - currently about 3 years behind the RSS community - should take note, though.
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