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February 7th, 2006

Idiot Wind

Posted by Steve Gillmor @ 12:22 pm

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I’ve been debating how to handle this. Do I just ignore it; i.e. send a negative gesture of lack of intent? Or do I play nice and debate the points one by one; i.e. send a neutral gesture of balanced dialogue? Nope.

Stowe Boyd’s post about RSS is flawed. Flawed in that it is totally wrong. Scoble is right. Stowe is not. RSS will continue to dominate and eventually suck all the oxygen out of the glorious Web as we currently adore it. We as in Stowe. What possibly leads Stowe to the conclusion that RSS will not absorb all of the wonderful (sic) Web characteristics like blogrolls, whirling beanies, and other smoke and awe? RSS is the Web, Stowe. It’s the Web on steroids. It saves time. It wins.

It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

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not the end of the world
Following a recent post by David Gillmor on Bowd?s RSS remarks,
I must admit I find Gillmor?s words pretty childish. His use of
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Posted by: ibrido Posted on: 02/12/06 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Again, I must interpret/translate for the masses  Justin James | 02/07/06
You forgot...  rapson | 02/08/06
Steve (NT)  Anton Philidor | 02/10/06
not the end of the world  ibrido | 02/12/06

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