This is BrainLog, a blog by Dan Sanderson. Older entries, from October 1999 through September 2010, are preserved for posterity, but are no longer maintained. See the front page and newer entries.

October 19, 2000

The International Press Telecommunications Council has officially approved NewsML v1.0, an XML-based standard for all multimedia news creation, storage and delivery. Some large news sites have already committed to using the standard in their news feeds. Find out more information here.