Future of RSS
Tim Bray has an interesting article on RSS. He has two quotes I find particularly interesting:
I hate to be a wet blanket but I just don't see RSS readers persisting for too long as a standalone application class, this stuff just belongs in the browser. It will take a couple of years for it to get cooked into mainstream browsers in a mature enough form to be usable, so the guys with the RSS-reader software should make hay while the sun shines and start figuring out their Next Big Thing.
anyone who does any kind of publishing software had better start offering a real-easy-to-use RSS interface and sooner rather than later or they're just not going to be in the game.
Given the lack of progress in IE's TEXTAREA and no mention of web publishing in OneNote I think it may be a while until Microsoft gets into the game, but they will eventually. Outside of papers for school I rarely fire up Office. Most of my composing is in my email and weblog. A little Powerpoint and Excel, but not much. If Microsoft wants to own my primary document creation program they've got some more work to do.
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