<p>until now it didn't really make much sense to me. i just thought it was a similar thing to RSS with a little bit of a different format. and proposed as an IETF standard. </p>

<p>but then i read the <a href="http://bitworking.org/projects/XML2004/presentation/pre.html">slide notes from the XML2004</a> talk about it. man, this looks exciting. it makes so much sense now. seems very intuitive. i, actually, have some ideas of how i might use this in the near future.</p>