RSS Standards Find A Neutral Steward at Harvard
As reported by The Harvard Crimson, RDF Site Summary/Really Simple Syndication (RSS) standards have found a new home as Harvard Law School�s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has acquired the RSS 2.0 specification for Internet weblogs from UserLand Software. The 2.0 standard, while in some ways more advanced than other standards being promoted, has been facing a certain lack of credibility as in the minds of some users and developers UserLand had commercial conflicts of interest. As we mentioned in last week's weblog, keeping weblog standards in an independent but non-bureaucratic environment is probably the best way to advance personal publishing in the short term, so from our corner this comes as a welcome announcement.