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Related, from Molly White's excellent review of Chris Dixon's Read Write Own [1]: > RSS is dead, he repeats endlessly throughout the book.[...] It's profoundly
by benzible 3y ago
Related, from Molly White's excellent review of Chris Dixon's Read Write Own [1]:
> RSS is dead, he repeats endlessly throughout the book.[...] It's profoundly weird to read RSS's obituary as a person who checks her very-much-still-alive feed reader several times a day to get everything from cryptocurrency news to dinner ideas, and who rarely encounters a website that doesn't provide a functional feed.
[1] https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/ https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chr...
- jeroenhd 3y agoThis little footnote made the obituary of RSS even more hilarious: > As it happens, Dixon's very own website has a functioning RSS feed. He may not even realize this, as RSS is so ubiquitous that many website and blog software products either build it in by default, or make it easy to add with simple plugins.
- acdha 3y agoI think that’s especially relevant given the context of that review. Chris Dixon is regurgitating a bunch of blockchain sales points because he has major investments in the space–a fact he’s not quick to share with readers–and needs to talk them up before he can exit. It’s worth asking whether he gives RSS the opposite treatment because he never figured out a way to get VC-scale returns out of a technology which isn’t amenable to gatekeeping.