If you use an RDF file on your website to syndicate content, and just think that there has to be something simpler out there for people to use - then this guy can sympathize. In his personal blog, Dave Winer states that something that is made for sharing information between people and sites just shouldn't be so hard.

On the same subject, Jeffrey Zeldman suggests a few things that a real "web technology" should be to be useful. Things like "solve practical problems" and "be capable of practical implementation" are wonderful things that too many standards designers just don't consider.

He steps through a brief history of how certain standards have come about on the web, including HTML, XHTML, and even those silly "Best Viewed With..." banners that some many sites still try to use.