And my pledge to Dave
Give the rest of the industry a way to move forward with RSS, a way to get the creative differences to agree on something uniting. Sit down with the 6-8 core developers and figure out what should be done.
Echo FUD
Never before have i seen a process with so much FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) in it as Echo. In a process worth the respect of any Bigco everyone is behind Echo allthough no one knows what it is. But all the the kids are gonna show the obnoxious old uncle who’s really in charge.
Yeah, Dave can be tough to work with at times, but give the man some well deserved credit for his work and his insight.
Let’s not create a new Engelbart - where great insight gets ignored across several generations because of personal issues.
Yes, Dave could have been more open and professional about the standard. His style of maintaning the standard has probably been a bit too adhoc considering how important rss has become, but at the core it’s about Dave’s belief in simplicity which none of the echo believers really understand imho.
Why don’t treat ECHO as a best practice organisation for the implementation of RSS 2.0 instead of trying to create something new just for the benefit of new. Perhaps getting Dave to help with rolling the absolute necessary changes into the 2.0 spec.
And why doesn’t anything happen in the spirit of openness in weblogs - what are the real motivations, what are the feelings and attitudes. Everything is going on in silence.
Sam Ruby might be a very nice guy - but untill proven otherwise i trust Dave Winer more. Many years of sharing his insights in openness, 20+ industry experience with standard setting bodies, what works in the real world, his contributions to soap, etc.
My simple pledge: “Show some respect “kids” and make a win-win situation for both you and Dave! You have something to learn from each other.”
There’s Life Left in the Valley. Don’t listen to Larry Ellison. If history is a guide, the seeds to the next boom are being sown now.
“I seem to be the only person who thinks this, but I believe the Valley’s progress over the years has been built not on success but on the rubble of failure, and we just created a lot of rubble,” says Paul Saffo”
reboot6 is over. Phew.
Good people, good conversations.
My body is punishing me for too little sleep and too much work.
Google Expands Contextual Ad Placement Program To Small Sites
The vision of micro advertising is here. I’m signing commonme.org up as a test.
HiNC - The History of Nordic Computing. Would love to be there.
Aula Meeting of Minds 2003
I’m off tonight to the Aula Meeting of Minds. A nice sunday in helsinki meeting with some of the reboot speakers, meeting new people and mentally prepare how to host reboot next friday.
Harddisken: Thomas Madsen-Mygdal [realmedia, danish]
You can catch me in this “behind the person” radio interview. Not really sure that a simple person like me should be answering questions like “what’s the meaning of life”.
And as always - this is six hours of conversations cut down to 16 minutes - so there could be missing contexts here and there…
CamWorld Turns Six
Hadn’t noticed that Cameron Barrett, whom i had the pleasure of meeting in NYC, has started blogging again - and just celebrated the six years anniversary of his blog.