[davewiner]

I like the first document, circa 2009. We were doing the same thing in Frontier at the time, because as the author says, it all was a bit of a mess.

I use the feedparser package in my JS work written by my friend Dan MacTough, that hides the differences between all flavors of RSS, RDF and Atom.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/feedparser

I don't know what role you think I played in RSS, but I never had the power to change what people were doing. I could only do things in my own software and with publishing partners.

I had influence only because I had (at the time) popular products and some good ideas (like podcasting).