Two Women Added to RSS Advisory Board

Anne Zelenka — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:05:41 -0600

On Monday, the RSS Advisory Board announced its eight new members, two of which were women. Previously, all the members were men. Meg Hourihan, cofounder of Pyra Labs, the company that created Blogger, and Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian, join other new members Loac Le Meur, Eric Lunt, Ross Mayfield, Randy Charles Morin, Greg Reinacker and Dave Sifry. Rogers Cadenhead, a previous board member, will serve as chairman.

The RSS Advisory Board publishes the Really Simple Syndication specification for the branch of RSS promoted by UserLand Software. Confusingly, this branch includes versions numbered 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, and 2.0. RSS version 1.0 is developed by the RSS-DEV working group and is based on a metadata specification known as RDF.

For more background on syndication feeds, you might like to check out Shelley Powers' What Are Syndication Feeds, published as an O'Reilly eDoc. Shelley blogs at Burningbird.

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Two Women Added to RSS Advisory Board