Re: [syndication] XML-RPC and the Need to Cash In

[Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>]

Sorry about the long delay in responses.

At 8:44 PM -0700 8/24/01, Jim Winstead wrote:
>the rest of your message appears to boil down to a distate for
>the reality brought about by sturgeon's law[1]. not much advice to be
>given on that, i think.

Only a very little. I don't think Radio Userland is crap - for the geek
crowd, it's a powerful little app that can cater to a lot of different
needs. If I intoned a whole "Radio Userland is crap" attitude, I apologize
to you and Userland. I guess a better "someone said it better" quote would
be the below, captured from the latest Wired magazine:

 "the ignorance of how to use new knowledge stockpiles exponentially"

Or, to make it more apt in our case:

 "the ignorance of how to use new technology stockpiles exponentially"

At 11:44 AM -0700 8/25/01, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>Technology does provide some excellent tools for solving
>communication-oriented social problems. However, it's not the end;
>only a means. In this case, we have a social problem of trying to get
>wide adoption of syndication. There have been peeks from some people

A wide adoption of any new technology even. This is more than just the
"early adopter syndrome". It's the "here's some geek tech, we're moving
onto something else" syndrome. No one is working to make things hick-like.

Another quote from the recent Sun Jabber conference (i think):

  "For an open-source project, complexity is your enemy; it raises
  the bar for contributors to become effective quickly and can make
  hacking on the project attractive only to an elite core who have
  been with the project for a long time."

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