Here’s an interesting thread on some shortcomings of RSS that’s making it’s way around the Metaweb at the moment. I would add a number of other weaknesses of RSS — chief among them is that RSS lacks formal semantics and is mainly suitable for describing very simple unstructured data such as Weblog postings.
Social tagging: Weblogs
10 reasons why RSS is not ready for prime time
Dylan Greene:’Chris Pirillo, aka the Lockergnome, had a comment during the “What is the future of RSS?” session that I strongly disagree with: “RSS is good enough.” I strongly disagree with this comment. While I agree RSS is good, I