Choosing the RSS less traveled
Although most discussion of syndication formats revolves around either RSS 2.0 or the Echo Project's new format, there's still a third choice: the other RSS. Tony Hammond covers it in a new article for XML.Com: Why choose RSS 1.0?

Discussing the RSS vs. RSS battle, Hammond writes:

It is difficult to know what is the underlying cause of all this angst. The principal suspect is surely RDF which is perceived to be somehow "difficult". Although built on a simple triples data model there is no fixed XML serialization since abbreviate XML syntaxes are supported, and it is thus not easy to capture this neatly in an XML schema language.

I think he answered his own question. I've tried several times to figure out the benefits you get from introducing the complexity of RDF to a simple XML syndication format, but I haven't found them yet. [Workbench] 
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Custom RSS Feeds
from Adrian Holvaty. [Scripting News] 
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Some uncommented RDF/FoaF links
REFERENCE SITES: Dave Beckett's RDF Resource Guide W3 RDF Website RDFWeb including the rdfweb-dev list and the FoaF Wiki foaf-project.org... [hebig.org/blog] 
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Why RDF Sucks
RDF sucks because its proponents want people to use it directly.  RDF syntaxes has little in themselves except as possible normalized data storage format.  Please don't throw nuts and bolts into people face when they are expecting knobs and buttons. [Don Park's Daily Habit] 
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Pie ...stands for "Pie isn't echo" - Xian. Love it!, gets my vote [Simon Fell] 
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Onfocus - Amazon RSS feeds
"Several people have mentioned that it would be nice to show the newest products in the Amazon RSS feeds rather than the top-selling products. There's a quick hack to make this happen." [Scripting News] 
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