Is there something better than RSS out?

anyone? 

better or different?  depends on what you want out of it.  atom, xspf, smil, custom xml dtd?  etc. 

i think rss does the job too well to be usurped by anything less than another shift

rss 3.0 anyone?

push rss will be interesting.

See Particls maybe...? RSS is solid, but intelligent filtering is certainly a step in the right direction (ie. mashups based on RSS, APIs, observed behaviour, user defined  options etc).

totally agree with richard