It was the tenth anniversary of Google shutting down their Reader product.

The Register had some questions, which I answered via a voicemail, included here.

It turned into an article, which I offered some corrections:

• UserLand Software no longer exists, I left in 2002, and we shut it down a few years later. I'm just a person now, not part of any company.
• RSS 1.0 was not a fork, not sure how you'd characterize it, but it was definitely not a fork. It was a whole new syntax, had no compatibility with RSS 0.91.
• RSS 2.0, which appears to have been left out, was finished in September 2002, and was supported by the New York Times, and thus was supported by the whole news industry and became the standard. Though some disagree, it was backward-compatible with RSS 0.91 and 0.92.
• Atom was a new format, again -- not a fork. It gained some popularity and is still in use.