Dave Winer: “I don’t ever want to be in a position where to participate in a community you have to support an undocumented API that’s implemented by a single vendor. I’m sure by now we all understand why that is too fragile a foundation to build on.”

via Scripting News: The RSS community wakes up.

John Gruber: “Apple’s priorities — simplicity, beauty, excellence — are becoming the industry’s priorities. You don’t have to be a former Apple employee to get on board this train, though.”

via Daring Fireball Linked List: The Apple-Fication of Everything.