To readers of my blog, it's no surprise, I like RSS. In this post, Mark Nottingham describes what RSS lacks to thrive on today's web this, includes the ability for publishers to be able to track readership, control/ensure readability in various readers, introduce methods of authenticating feeds, and more. Mark has also set up an IETF mailing list to discuss this further. This was discovered through Evan.

Robb Knight has created a tool, Lens, to help check meta tags on websites. There are many similar tools out there but this gives just the right parameters I need along with a card preview and code samples to use. Robb's write-up covers this in more detail.