Dave Winer is somehow surprised that a Google search for RSS turns up "angry geeks" - in this case, "angry geeks" means "people who've had to deal with Dave Winer":

When you look at the results of the Google search, it's angry geeks complaining about RSS and saying they know the better way to do it.

All you need to do in order to understand the problem is peruse Winer's writing on the topic. He's proud that RSS 2.0 (and all previous versions, for that matter) are fundamentally broken, and even thinks that the broken-ness is a feature. Here's a quote from him on the RSS Advisory board mailing list that illustrates the problem. A few people were talking about Enclosures (can there be more than one? Should there be more than one? Could the spec perhaps be specific?):

And with that, I am banging the gavel and ending this experiment of Rogers's.

Tomorrow I will talk individually with all the corporate members of the "board" and ask them to resign.

Rogers may then wish to propose a new structure, one that is consistent with the "come back to earth" message.

This after people starting voting on their preference (one/many enclosures). Gosh forbid that the spec should actually lay that out, so that implementations could start becoming specific - couldn't have that. What we have now is a sea of inconsistency, simply because Winer can't see the wisdom of allowing some clarity.

The net result of that attitude is Atom's existence - something that would not have happened had Winer been even marginally reasonable. Next time he wonders why RSS searches turn up vitriol, he should look in a mirror. Then he can keep iterating until it sinks in.

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