Entries Tagged as ‘XML/RSS/Atom’

February 23, 2006

Scoble: Let me tell you a bit about journalists…

You can always tell a really, strong argument when it’s based on the premise “A lot of the people I talk to”…
A couple of days ago, Robert Scoble posted this argument, arguing in favour of full-feeds and against a post made by fellow-Australian Duncan Riley, who has consistently argued in The Blog Herald that [...]

February 7, 2006

“Most people are morons”

My ‘old media’ mates think I’m a raving, lunatic radical. My ‘new media’ mates thing I’m a closed-minded dinosaur. For our part, how anyone can not understand that Squash is clearly the voice of reason, is quite simply beyond us.
However, the torrent of comments that my recent post Why RSS will never “break through”, showed [...]

February 5, 2006

Why RSS will never “break through”

The meme today about how RSS may or may not “break through” is the perfect example of the new media vanguard not having a clue about real media. (Dave Winer opines on how RSS can break through, Scoble says it already has, Dion Hinchcliffe thinks it can but it has to be easier to use)
Reality [...]

December 21, 2005

Structured Blogging drives me to tiers

Having just read a couple of very insightful and thoughtful piece on Google Base by Bill Burnham, I’ve totally altered my position on structured blogging and I’m now convinced that we’re set to see a two-tier publishing model arise very quickly that separates the “data” from the presentation mechanism.
In brief, Burnham argued in his original [...]