…in which case, isn’t it a worry that Echo is being pitched as an RSS-replacement yet is scoped to address only weblogger’s requirements?

Other RSS / jobs stuff:

http://jobs.perl.org/rss/ http://jobs.perl.org/rss/telecommute.rss

Also an RSS query demo from some time ago, where we tried to show the value of a principled model for RSS namespace extension:

http://ilrt.org/discovery/2000/11/rss-query/

RSS1 is sleeping, RSS2 has grudging and ill-specified support for namespace mixing, and Echo is mostly for webloggers. Something’s missing…

I took my worries over to http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/2003/08/04#a167 and expanded on them a bit…