Ian Davis - It’s Not RDF versus Microformats:

Nobody wants two webs, but many of us want the freedom to publish whatever data we have into the existing web without a centralised process.

I’m amazed by how suddenly OpenID has gotten people’s attention, after a long period of relative obscurity.

How much attention? Well, the openid-general mailing list archives have 77kB worth of (compressed) mail for December 2006 and 177kB worth for January 2007. So far.

If I had to guess where it stems from I’d say Simon Willison’s how to and screencast. Proponents of esoteric technology: take note, and take heart.