Big Damn Heroes: "...the folks whose opinions and decisions are actually relevant (Ev, the Trotts, Ross, the new Userland team, Nick, the Newzcrawler folks, etc.) are either conspicuous by their absence, or only tangentially active."

I'm waiting for wine and roses. We've committed to helping develop the specification, but I'm not going to get the team involved in an undefined process with unclear outcomes. I was ecstatic when I read that Sam was moving development of the specification into the IETF. Now, I just wait and generally worry about other things.

But we're in pretty good shape in the meantime. RSS 2.0 does most of what we need from a syndication perspective and the metaWeblog API is doing yeoman's work on the publishing side of things.

Like I mentioned to someone over the weekend in Cambridge, I have better things to do to worry about the politics of a standard that may turn out to be meaningless to my customers. Atom has a lot of promise, but promises don't keep my customers happy and they don't keep the lights on here in BlogwareLand. If this moves on to the IETF, we'll get involved.

But only if that happens before I move on to something new.