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• The World Wide Web Consortium injected itself into the syndication controversy by proposing that Atom seek standardization via the W3C process, rather than the IETF. This prompted a number of generally confused responses from various directions. The funniest, perhaps, was Robert Scoble’s, where he wondered why the W3C didn’t invite RSS as well. Um, just hazarding a guess, but…
• SixApart announced the licensing structure for Movable Type 3.0. People went kinda bats**t. The recent perceptible geeknoscenti move towards WordPress became a stampede.
• I’m still happy with Blosxom.
• Google started a corporate weblog, and for now it’s more corporate than weblog. There’s a feed for it too, which is currently Atom only, and of course that’s only a practical problem if one happens to use an unmaintained aggregator or one is allergic to free workarounds. They added image ads as an option for Adsense, but I haven’t seen one yet. They also launched Google Groups 2 as a beta. The two biggest features: new support for mailing lists (similar to Yahoo Groups lists) and the ability to read Usenet article summaries as Atom feeds. Still no sign of what I’d really like to see — providing Google web searches and Google News searches as feeds.
• Rogers Cadenhead, Andrew Grumet, and Adam Curry join Dave Winer on the RSS Advisory Board. Brent Simmons and Jon Udell leave, without comment. The number of non-Userland-affiliated persons on the board reaches zero, which is, seemingly, where it will stay. M’kay. OneCo?

:: Dave Walker 14:24 (EST/EDT) [+]

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