Dave Winer today:
Ask anyone who’s worked on a RSS reader, for that matter, ask anyone who’s used one, what a PITA it is to subscribe to a feed. All those little buttons, or copying and pasting, and looking at urls, and trying to figure out whether you want this format or that format. It’s a miracle anyone actually subscribes to feeds it’s so damned complicated.
What the hell? Has Winer subscribed to an RSS feed in the last two years? Once the major browser developers adopted a feed icon over his idiotic objection, subscribing to a feed became simple. Click the 
icon to open a page; see a preview; decide whether to subscribe. In Firefox it takes two clicks and supports any web RSS aggregator or desktop client.
The only reason it’s a pain in the ass for Winer is because he’s using his own software.
I really enjoy this site when you guys are objective and fair – the nastier posts are not really my speed. Dave gives you plenty of ammo, the pettier stuff is not really necessary.
With that in mind, this post is a home run. Possibly Bullshit’s best. Absolutely right on the money. Dave couldn’t be more out of touch on this “issue.” And he attempts to speak from such a position of authority … he completely fails here. Dead wrong.
Will his cadre of enablers speak up and tell him he’s wrong? I suppose we’ll have to wait and see.
Winer is making the case for centralized OPML again. His directory of course.