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It is an almost trivial observation to say that those who don't understand RSS are condemned to reinvent it, poorly - but if you are going to reinvent it, why
by jarek 15y ago
It is an almost trivial observation to say that those who don't understand RSS are condemned to reinvent it, poorly - but if you are going to reinvent it, why make it extra-difficult and do it using a proprietary platform and an as-of-yet non-existent client for that platform?
- mechanical_fish 15y agoBecause nobody planned to reinvent RSS. We can't even be perfectly sure that Twitter planned to invent Twitter! ;)
- jarek 15y ago> Because nobody planned to reinvent RSS. Indeed, there is not a lot of planning going on when developing brave new platforms. Lack of awareness or understanding of RSS leads people to devise strategies like Twitter lists and custom Twitter clients to keep track of periodically updated hypertext content they are interested in. About the only thing Twitter-as-RSS does better than plain RSS is consolidation of multiple feeds into one easy-to-poll source which enables easier push-like functionality - essentially a Google Reader.
- hollerith 15y agoAnd RSS is a poor reinvention of Usenet. (But I support it.)
- jarek 15y agoBut it's got XML, so it's obviously better. (I kid.)