Inspirational Technology

Echo Project

Anyone who's interested in blogging tools may want to pay attention to the Echo project. From the site "The EchoProject is an initative to develop a common syntax for syndication, archiving and an editing API". It's an effort to consolidate all the RSS, Blogger API, MetaWebLog API, whatever mess into something more manageable.

Tim Bray is wondering if it's going to go off the rails. In my original comment on this, I expressed the same concern. It's the second system syndrome, developers just can't resist it.

If nothing else Echo is an interesting experiment in community oriented specification.