1.	These syndication formats are mildly interesting as ways of flowing my content thru your website, but where this gets really exciting is when you use this information to seed the contents of a search engine. Did I fail to mention that except for Slashdot's format, all the syndication formats are XML-based? They are!
2.	Like many others, we felt that when critical mass was achieved, there would be an opportunity to build an infinite number of XML-based special-subject search engines. Now we're there and today we're announcing the first such search engine, one that indexes three sites that support scriptingNews format:
3.	http://newssearch.userland.com/