i'm not sure about all that other stuff you mentioned, but coming from a lowly webdesigner who's really started to "get" RSS these last few months, i'd dont understand why it doesnt have built-in "standard" tags for Comments... should have a sub-set of tags for each post, so i could read blog posts in my prefer'd aggregator and get a heirarchical Treeview of the post and all it's comments if i wish...
would also be kewl if it had some builtin META tags, never understood why it doesnt....?
and what about Blog Categories? imagine a webservice that tied in to a huge aggregate of 1000's of blogs and being able to search, archive, and browse by relevant data such as keywords, short-description, meta info, categories, etc?
i'm not an expert, by any means... just some thoughts... 
I'm not sure if this is an RSS or an aggregator thing (or maybe both?) but... I subscribe to some 'aggregated' (not sure if that's the right word in this context) feeds, like the PDC Bloggers one, which are made up of lots of other feeds. In addition, I subscribe to many individual feeds that are included in the aggregated ones. I'd like some way of having it so my reader (SharpReader, in my case) marks items I've already read as being read in both feeds - so I don't end up having to read them twice.
I like the "how important is this post" idea. Maybe somehting like Slashdot's ratings system, but only for the poster.
Heck, I could add a post rating to my weblog in about 15 minutes, the RSS feed in another 10, and maybe even get my weblog to sort a days. posts by importance. Hmmm. Will have to think on this. Maybe add a "priority" extension to RSS 2?
you can use 'category' today, a number of newreaders support that. if you're not using categories in a meaningful way today, you can start. add a 'coolstuff' category. or a 'personal' and a 'microsoft' category, then people who think 'personal' is important will look at those, and people who think 'microsoft' is important will read those.
of course, forcing users to self-categorize rarely works very well, thus explaining the popularity of google.
I like the idea of adding levels of importance to the posts, both on the publisher end and the subscriber end.
If I could flag posts in SharpReader as being more important I could "bookmark" posts by levels of importance.
mb: yeah, that's the problem. I think we need tools to give readers more power over the content. I as a writer will resist doing things that slow me down.
RSE: The Future of RSS
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That's what I want. Hey Scoble, any comments?
I think the ability to just have an arbitrary set of URL's that relate to the article/site should be sufficient in RSS for information relation purposes.
For example, one could point to an LDAP:// link that lists other employees ldap entries (Active directory compatible!) that have a weblog attribute. Then just add a weblog attribute to the directory and give the employees a manner to set it if they have it.
(I'm actually a little irritated that there isn't an interface in windows to set your own active directory attributes. I mean one that will pull out a list and let you set them assuming you have rights, not like active directory users and computers where you can't set anything bar what's defined by the management console.
I might build an app to do that at some point...)
Another example could be to point to a google search/search of a blog index that returns a list of related sites.
XML is extensible, so why limit yourself to RSS if it doesn't provide what you want? Innovate and let support for your schema be adopted if people like it.
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