Sifry: I'm out!

From Dave Sifry of Technorati...

I'm resigning from the RSS advisory board.

– rss-board : Message: Resignation.

I’ve been struggling with the direction, goals and a myriad of issues related to the RSS Advisory C’ttee lately. My problem is quite simple – I build apps and I want them to work for as many users as possible, and interoperate with as many other applications and standards as possible.

I’m not completely in tune with the not-so-quiet politics going on behind (and in front) the scenes – quite frankly, I don’t want to be. I just want to build and deploy apps…

Anyways, I think I’m also going to put these worries behind me and let the Advisory Board and the spec group do their thing. So I guess, in some way, I’m also resigning from the RSS spec group that works under the board. Not that it really has members – its just a mailing list of interested people. I’m not going to be dramatic and announce it (beyond this entry) or unsubscribe from the list (the discourse is valuable) but I’m not going to worry about it either.

I’d rather worry about building apps and moving the business forward.

Update: Greg Reinacker, CTO of Newsgator, has resigned as well, citing politics and a lack of time.