Echo vs. RSS
Monday, June 30th, 2003There’s a huge schism occuring in the weblog-tech community about a new technology that many people are collaborating on called Echo. It aims to improve and replace two existing standards: the MetaWeblog API and RSS. Both of these standards are outdated, lack important features and not properly described. Dave Winer is a crotchedy old man with a popular weblog who played a huge role in developing both standards, and he’s one of the most hated people in weblogging for a reason. In the past couple days he’s been making a total fool of himself on his website and many others. He whines like a little kid and cries foul about the imaginary “personal attacks” he’s enduring while slinging lies and …