RSS 2.0: Grouchy programmer 1, semantic Web 0

The "grouchy programmer" Adam Bosworth gave props to during his brief Q&A at the end of his keynote was, of course, Dave Winer. Bosworth was disparaging RSS 1.0 and RDF, created by a vast community of developers, for their complexity, bearing more than a passing resemblance to the goals of Tim Berners-Lee's semantic Web. "I don't understand top-down ontologists," Bosworth said.  "RSS 2.0 was done by one grouchy programmer. But programmers could understand it and use it."