Moving Forward with RSS

["Alis Marsden" <alis@contentrelations.com>]

I have been subscribing to this list for several months, lurking mainly,
simply because the tone is quite technical and I am not educated in
technology or naturally gifted with a technical mind.

When it comes to RSS I'm probably never going to be able to read and
comprehend as much as Dave Winer or others on this list could write in a
day.

I haven't got an intelligent opinion on much of the technical discussion
that goes on here, but that doesn't mean I'm not as interested in RSS and
its future as someone who has.

I want to see us moving forward here.  Lets put an end to all that is time
wasting now.  I really hope that nobody is too fed up to continue already
because with a little organisation we should be able to get back on track.

As I said, I'm not technically minded enough to play an important part in
any technical discussion.  However I can write documents aimed at business
people.  I could set up and maintain a group website with minutes of the
discussions that go on here, links, news and so forth.  I can telephone and
email people with information and help promote RSS.  Would any of these
suggestions help or is there anything else I could do?  Are there other
people like me?

Julian's pointed out earlier this week that we need an RSS FAQ for business
people.  I'm going to start on that now by writing out the best RSS FAQ I
can.  I'll post a link to it here tomorrow and hopefully others in the group
will contribute and we can get that job done.

Talk to you all tomorrow.

Alis


On a final note, being OK at ASP, I had a look at the stors.org link Dave
posted, and decided to ask them about RSS.  First I got a lengthy reply, and
then a one line email from James Shaw stating just this:

"Let me rephrase my answer. STORS is dead, long live RSS... ;-)"