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Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has acquired the most popular specification for Internet weblogs, RSS 2.0, making Harvard a leading institution in one of the Internet’s most popular trends...
...RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, describes a format used by computer software to automate online compilation of various news sources...
...RSS is used both by major media organizations—including the BBC and the New York Times—and public diaries called weblogs, or “blogs.” According to Dave Winer, a fellow at the Berkman Center and author of the specifications, blogging will be “much like e-mail is today” within a few years...
Winer said that RSS is “consistent with the philosophy of Berkman, which is that the Internet should be open and free, usable by everybody...
...said that the transfer would put RSS on a “solid foundation” as a widely-available specification. The Berkman Center will license RSS under the Creative Commons license, which allows anyone to copy or change it, as long as they provide attribution and keep the same license...