I use feedster.com to see what people are saying about Avalon or XAML.
I was interested in reading this first take on Avalon from slave to the code. He compares Avalon to Flash. He discusses some of our stregths..and the fear that people will abuse some of the power... (remember fonts in the early days...)
Now I'm off for some early morning golf...then more work on the avalon schema generation tool...