urgh.. I have no idea how this turned into me defending Winer since I only wanted to respond to the Pilgrim posts which were FUD (the two examples you originall

urgh.. I have no idea how this turned into me defending Winer since I only wanted to respond to the Pilgrim posts which were FUD (the two examples you originally posted). You don't have to convince me that either of these guys are nutters - I know it all too well. My point is that there are two sides to this story (well, 4 really) - that RSS popularized feeds and that in the past 10 years despite all the effort nothing has been made easier for devs, if anything it is even more complicated (esp with the namespace extensions from iTunes)