I've stayed out of the new syndication format development process while keeping an eye on blog reports to see what's going on. Mostly there are too many strong personalities involved to leave sensible discussion, and I've got other things to do with my time than to watch the RecentChanges page on a wiki all the time. What is syndication for after all?!
However, I did go over and vote on the current naming issue. Feedcast is just a bad name - it is the name of a technology not a protocol/format. The format and API itself doesn't cast anything - software does. And how redundant is the phrase "FeedCast feed". I think almost any other name would be better. Don't get me wrong, I think the naming process for this thing is long winded and completely over-blown, but there are many better suggestions than feedcast.
Of course, we shouldn't forget that the name of the format it's trying to better itself (RSS) had unfortunate misuses - RSSBandit anyone? Oh dear...
Posted by Simon at August 8, 2003 02:56 PM