With a cryptic note, the lights are out at Scripting News:
The lack of support, even name-calling, from people who think of themselves as my friend, has got me thinking that maybe this isn’t worth it. And the abuse from others, bordering on cruelty, is intolerable.
Is this related to the recent flap on RSS validators? Whatever’s behind it, it’s weird.
Via Misanthropyst.
UPDATE: OK, it’s about RSS, which Dave invented and about which he feels very territorial, and Echo, a proposed new format for blog syndication whose primary benefit is Dave’s lack of control over it.
RSS, for all of its shortcomings, has been widely-adopted, so the transition to Echo, if there is one, is going to be very painful.
It didn’t last long; he’s back.