I read Dave Winer’s post on Two-way RSS earlier today, and I agree with the concept (publishing tools should allow other editors to create content), but I am not understanding referring specifically to RSS. In the Micro.blog site, a user can publish to a timeline from a RSS feed. However, all the editing in that context occurs in the tool creating the RSS feed. In past posts, Dave Winer has advocated for publishing tools to allow other editors to create content for that publishing tool. I am just having difficulty seeing how allowing “inbound RSS” solves the problem.
I assume Dave means that your writing tool produces the rss feed. And his outliner does. We tend to think of RSS as a product of a publishing platform, but any tool can create a feed and there’s no reason why your personally preferred writing tool shouldn’t be able to. Microblog is a good example, it doesn’t care if your RSS feed comes from your site, or is hand coded, or is created in any other possible way, it just needs to have an URL. I just wrote a posting about this too, also mentioning Micropub which I think allows more functionality than RSS in sending publishing instructions to a publishing platform.