Last month I wrote an Open Letter to eWeek asking them to justify this article about Jonathan Avidan’s so-called “RSS3“.

Lisa Vaas, editor at eWeek and author of the article, responded to the letter. She promised to look further to see whether RSS3 was really legitimate, a hoax, or (as I believe) just a unsubstantial bid for fame. Since then, we have traded quite a few emails these past weeks as she dug deeper into the matter.

Today Ms. Vaas let me know her investigation is done. After checking with other sources, she tried to contact Jonathan Avidan himself. It would seem the man who was so anxious to get on Slashdot is now a little shy of the press.

Here is her conclusion:

“Because [Mr. Avidan] has neglected to respond to my request for an interview, I don’t have much chance to delve deeper into who he is and why he hasn’t chosen to work with those people who are already doing this work. As such, his efforts appear to be isolated and tangential to real work being done on the standards.” - Lisa Vaas, eWeek

Indeed. Now that we don’t have to concern ourselves with a new flawed syndicated feed format, we can go back to concerning ourselves with the old flawed ones.

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