Something big is in the wind for tomorrow's Gnomedex. When Dave Winer is on the same page with Microsoft, you ought to pay close attention (it's about as common as your average totoal eclipse of the sun folks). c|net has a preview of what we might hear from Seattle tomorrow.

"Microsoft is proposing an extension to RSS that would allow it to better support ordered lists of information. Today, RSS feeds are sent and read merely as a stream of messages, with the order being determined according to the time the messages were sent. Microsoft is proposing a way to add ordering information so that an RSS feed could better handle things like an e-commerce site's list of best-selling items or calendar information ordered by the date of an event rather than when the appointment was created.

"Lists are all over the place, and people are starting to move them around via RSS, and they are not the usual kind of data that has been carried by RSS in the past, influential blogging pioneer Dave Winer said in a posting late Wednesday. "The people at Microsoft noticed something that I had seen, only peripherally—that there were applications of RSS that aren't about news. Like Audible's NY Times Best Seller list, or an iTunes music playlist, or lists of Sharepoint documents, or browser bookmarks."

says watch the IE blog and Channel 9 for the news around 10:30 a.m. PST. today (06/24/2005). Better yet, check out Weblogs, Inc.'s latest event blog - blogginggnomedex - for all the news from what is shaping up to be a momentous event.