Like almost every article about RSS it seems more concerned with people writing than it is with the needs of the readers. That was always the problem with David Weiner and his pals.
For instance what the exact format is does not matter. Supporting RSS, Atom and a few similar formats from a reader perspective is just no problem compared to parsing bad HTML, dealing with JS Hell, etc.
The real issue is a lack of innovation on the part of feed readers, particularly that we still see the "here is a list of all your feeds" viewed separately and no effort to make a workflow where you can make it so your time is not wasted by articles from Tedium and sensationalistic sites like Fox News and the New York Times, etc.
the machine learning technology to do this is ten years old and if the kids out there weren't so interested in word embeddings, functional programming and other fads, they could bring this to the people.
For instance what the exact format is does not matter. Supporting RSS, Atom and a few similar formats from a reader perspective is just no problem compared to parsing bad HTML, dealing with JS Hell, etc.
The real issue is a lack of innovation on the part of feed readers, particularly that we still see the "here is a list of all your feeds" viewed separately and no effort to make a workflow where you can make it so your time is not wasted by articles from Tedium and sensationalistic sites like Fox News and the New York Times, etc.
see
http://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/ http://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/
the machine learning technology to do this is ten years old and if the kids out there weren't so interested in word embeddings, functional programming and other fads, they could bring this to the people.