The RSS Advisory Board has had a checkered past and its share of run-ins with Dave Winer over RSS 2.0. There have been times where it was right to question how relevant it had become.
This announcement by Netscape lends a great deal of credibility to the Board-sans-Winer, and hopefully will increase the adoption [...]

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Newsgator has announced that a bevy of their RSS/Atom clients, including the excellent FeedDemon is now free:
FeedDemon 2.6, NetNewsWire 3.1, Inbox 3.0 (beta), and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0. Each of these is a pretty major release on its own - tons of new features in all of them.
But second, every one of [...]

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Ben Abernathy writes a poignant observation about computer science and the kinds of people that come (or don’t come) out of college programs.    The first group ditches computer science altogether, the second delights in making things work, but the third strives for something more elusive: elegance and beauty.  Ben is right to note that [...]

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