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Remember Mr. Safe? Apparently, no one has spoken with the gentleman in quite a while. Sam Ruby decided to take some time and have a conversation with him. The results are interesting and informative. I have been thinking about the whole Harvard aspect of this. Dave Winer deeded the RSS 2.0 specification there after complaints that RSS should not be under the control of a single vendor. Apparently, Dave picked Harvard for three reasons: 1) they were not a vendor, 2) he happened to be working there at the time and 3) no one would confuse them with a legitimate standards body. But they also have something less than an unbiased view at this point. I certainly can’t predict what is going to happen, but I do think the balance may starting tipping soon.