Re: New poll for syndication

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Dave Winer <dave@userland.com> wrote:

> Maybe some people don't want to contribute to standards, maybe they just
> want to get more hits for their sites. I think we should start a new mail
> list with a charter that puts the focus on use of this stuff, not on a
> standards process.

I'm not clear what you mean by this Dave -- RSS-DEV has been recently
criticized for having a _lack_ of a standards process. It's not a political
body, and there was no political discussion until you got involved. While my
personal goal is not to get more hits for my sites, it is also not to spend
time in committees arguing over technical details.

Personally, my goal is to make the Web even cooler than it is already.
Whether that is done through a format decided by me, you, O'Reilly, or Bill
Gates makes little difference. All I'd like, is for that format to exist,
and for people to use it. I joined up with the RSS-DEV list because I think
that they might likely make that happen. But if you start a new list, I'll
join up with it too, and likely do my best to help it move along.

What I'd like more than anything is for cool things to start happening. They
won't happen by standing still, and they won't happen by fighting. They will
happen by moving: running, jumping, writing, coding, discussing, arguing and
thinking. That's all: I just want things to happen, what they're called and
who does them makes little difference to me.

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