1.	Earlier today Netscape announced a new low-tech format for syndicating web content called RSS, for RDF Site Specification. It's a more realistic spec than the one proposed by Microsoft several years ago, called CDF, or Channel Definition Format, because it reflects the dynamic nature of news-oriented sites.
2.	It's not as far-reaching or complex as the ICE spec promoted by Vignette. It's most comparable to the scriptingNews format we've been promoting since late 1997, and the "ultramode.txt" format being implemented by Slashdot.org, and presumably other sites.
3.	We are supporting RSS with our content. Over the weekend we put together a script (of course!) that generates a Netscape-compatible rendering of our site.
4.	http://news.userland.com/scriptingNewsToRss.xml
5.	Compare this to scriptingNews format, which includes more contextual information:
6.	http://news.userland.com/mostRecentScriptingNews.xml
7.	Congratulations to Netscape for getting this out. There are still improvements we'd like to see in RSS, they should be obvious in this comparison, and we've communicated them to the people working on this stuff at Netscape.
8.	Further, we'd like to see how people are using Netscape's format. If you have a RSS file on your server, please send me a link so we can have a look. Thanks!