Although I agree with Dave on the issue of funky RSS, I think he is misusing the word funky.  When someone say something is funky, it means it is good in a weird way.  Dave is using the word to mean weird in a  bad way to be polite.  Here is are some straight fast balls: RDF is fucked up, MT is fucked up, Six Apart is fucked up.

Setting aside the question of who started what or where respect is due,  anyone who causes unnecessary mess for others out of some political and idealogical reasons deserve to get yelled at.  Ultimately, blog readers don't give a hoot whether the blog feed is in RDF or RSS 2.0, but blog developers *do* care about how many evolving formats they have to support.  IMHO, RSS 2.0 is not going to go away and RDF is far from being finished nor popularized.

Dave also deserve far more respect than some script jockeys who prefers to argue like sea-lawyers while being blinded to the fact that truth is not always at the end of a string of arguments and that most ideas, regardless of their beauty or simpliticy, can't be stretched enough to match the complexity of reality over time.