I met a journalist from xml-magazin.de at the webinale 2007, and he interviewed me recently. Interview is in German!
http://xml-magazin.de/itr/news/psecom,id,36225,nodeid,68.html
I answer questions about Semantic Desktop, Semantic Web, and RDF, and often the question is “why is RDF not used?”, well, …
I am well aware that not all versions of RSS are RDF. Still, I am confident to say its a success, because the semantic web idea is to make a web of data, annotating URIs with links to other URIs. So although the serialization format has changed, RSS is a perfect example for the idea behind.
that winer’s 0.91 was faster adopted compared to the 1.0 version is a fact. I think we would have better software, if we had the 1.0 version now, because then I wouldn’t need to make all those mashups by hand… 🙂