Assembly Online was setup without using blogging software, unlike our bigger cousin, Downing Street Says, because we didn’t see much use for most of the baggage of, say, Moveable Type.
We missed out on the automatic production of RSS and Atom — and trackback, by the way — and had to manage the RSS ourselves (Mark and Sam’s Feed Validator was invaluable), and the trackback, and we still have to implement the Atom feeds.
Now Bill Gates is waking up to RSS:
Websites were a problem too, he added, because they demand that people visit them regularly to find out if anything has changed and require regular updating to avoid going stale.
These problems could be solved, said Mr Gates, by using blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS), that lets people know when a favourite journal is updated.
And it looks as though Microsoft is going to make a move into the weblogging software market sometime soon.
