Contrary to what this writer thinks, Twitter is not a replacement for RSS. The whole idea of RSS is to not miss stuff. If a writer you like publishes online once every 3 months, that article will be there in your RSS reader, almost impossible to miss.

Imagine the odds of seeing the Tweet announcing that once every 90 days post. It’s 90% likely you’ll miss it.

Twitter was founded as a social network. The whole idea originally was share what you are doing right now. Twitter originally was most famous for pictures of what you were having for lunch. The use case has shifted over time, and a lot of people use it for content discovery. It’s not a horrible tool for discovery because the really interesting stuff often gets re-tweeted enough that you can’t miss it. However, the lifespan of content on Twitter is measured in days, if not hours. If you are following a few hundred people on Twitter good luck finding that thing you saw last week, if you didn’t favorite it or otherwise save it outside of Twitter when you originally saw it. Twitter is mostly noise, and little signal.

RSS is critical infrastructure for the web. Google may have ultimately done us a favor by canceling Reader. It reminded us that RSS is important, and that maybe we had been taking it for granted.

Contrary to what this
writer
thinks, Twitter is not a replacement for RSS. The whole idea of RSS is
to not miss stuff. If a writer you like publishes online once every 3
months, that article will be there in your RSS reader, almost impossible
to miss.
…

Tom Keifer, as I would expect most of my readers to know, was the lead singer of Cinderella back in the day. This is his first solo album. It was worth the wait. Mixing bluesy rockers that would fit in perfectly on the last two Cinderella albums with a few very well done rootsy, country tinged ballads, Tom has comeback to the rock world with a fantastic album that deserves far more attention than it will probably get. Let’s hope I’m wrong about that last part.

Tom Keifer, as I would expect most of my readers to know, was the lead singer of Cinderella back in the day. This is his first solo album. It was worth the wait. Mixing bluesy rockers that would fit in perfectly on the last two Cinderella albums with a few very well done rootsy, country tinged ballads, Tom has comeback to the rock world with a fantastic album that deserves far more attention than it will probably get. Let’s hope I’m wrong about that last part.

Tom Keifer, as I would expect most of my readers to know, was the lead singer of Cinderella back in the day. This is his first solo album. It was worth the wait. Mixing bluesy rockers that would fit in perfectly on the last two Cinderella albums with a few very well done rootsy, country tinged ballads, Tom has comeback to the rock world with a fantastic album that deserves far more attention than it will probably get. Let’s hope I’m wrong about that last part.

Tom Keifer, as I would expect most of my readers to know, was the lead
singer of Cinderella back in the day. This is his first solo album. It
was worth the wait. Mixing bluesy rockers that would fit in perfectly on
the last two Cinderella albums with a…

Robert Scoble has proclaimed Google Glass the next revolutionary thing. He did the same thing with RSS and podcasting back in 2004. RSS and podcasts are great. I was upset as anybody by the demise of Google Reader. However, 98% of the world didn’t care. If podcasts ceased to exist tomorrow the only people who would care are the handful of people managing to make a living creating them, and the relative minority of us that consume them. He also proclaimed Netflix dead in 2007. I’m not running a “Scoble is wrong” blog, honest. I didn’t even remember the Netflix post, it just came up when I was searching for the RSS/podcast post.

However, If he missed the mark so badly on 3 big issues already, why would we have any confidence that he is right this time? Google Glass suffers from the same problem that RSS and Podcasting suffer from. They don’t solve a problem that most people have. Most of us are not looking for a more convenient way to search the web while we are walking down the street. The Internet democratized access to information. Cars made your world a smaller place. The telephone enabled real-time communication. What is Google Glass going to do? It probably is an incremental improvement over using your phone to take pictures. So what? What market is Google Glass going to disrupt? Robert theorizes that it might be advertising, as Google can use Glass to get in between virtually every transaction you do and minimize it’s dependency on ads for revenue. That is an interesting theory, but they have to sell 100 million of the things first. Good luck with that. They already have 100 million Android phones in circulation. Has anybody noticed a decline in ads? The hype around Glass reminds me of the hype around the Segway. Remember how it was going to revolutionize transportation?

Lest anyone thing I’m throwing stones in glass houses, just take a look at my comments regarding social networks in the second link in the first paragraph. I can be wrong too.

Robert Scoble has proclaimed Google Glass the next revolutionary thing. He did the same thing with RSS and podcasting back in 2004. RSS and podcasts are great. I was upset as anybody by the demise of Google Reader. However, 98% of the world didn’t care. If podcasts ceased to exist tomorrow the only people who would care are the handful of people managing to make a living creating them, and the relative minority of us that consume them. He also proclaimed Netflix dead in 2007. I’m not running a “Scoble is wrong” blog, honest. I didn’t even remember the Netflix post, it just came up when I was searching for the RSS/podcast post.

However, If he missed the mark so badly on 3 big issues already, why would we have any confidence that he is right this time? Google Glass suffers from the same problem that RSS and Podcasting suffer from. They don’t solve a problem that most people have. Most of us are not looking for a more convenient way to search the web while we are walking down the street. The Internet democratized access to information. Cars made your world a smaller place. The telephone enabled real-time communication. What is Google Glass going to do? It probably is an incremental improvement over using your phone to take pictures. So what? What market is Google Glass going to disrupt? Robert theorizes that it might be advertising, as Google can use Glass to get in between virtually every transaction you do and minimize it’s dependency on ads for revenue. That is an interesting theory, but they have to sell 100 million of the things first. Good luck with that. They already have 100 million Android phones in circulation. Has anybody noticed a decline in ads? The hype around Glass reminds me of the hype around the Segway. Remember how it was going to revolutionize transportation?

Lest anyone thing I’m throwing stones in glass houses, just take a look at my comments regarding social networks in the second link in the first paragraph. I can be wrong too.

Robert Scoble has proclaimed Google Glass the next revolutionary thing. He did the same thing with RSS and podcasting back in 2004. RSS and podcasts are great. I was upset as anybody by the demise of Google Reader. However, 98% of the world didn’t care. If podcasts ceased to exist tomorrow the only people who would care are the handful of people managing to make a living creating them, and the relative minority of us that consume them. He also proclaimed Netflix dead in 2007. I’m not running a “Scoble is wrong” blog, honest. I didn’t even remember the Netflix post, it just came up when I was searching for the RSS/podcast post.

However, If he missed the mark so badly on 3 big issues already, why would we have any confidence that he is right this time? Google Glass suffers from the same problem that RSS and Podcasting suffer from. They don’t solve a problem that most people have. Most of us are not looking for a more convenient way to search the web while we are walking down the street. The Internet democratized access to information. Cars made your world a smaller place. The telephone enabled real-time communication. What is Google Glass going to do? It probably is an incremental improvement over using your phone to take pictures. So what? What market is Google Glass going to disrupt? Robert theorizes that it might be advertising, as Google can use Glass to get in between virtually every transaction you do and minimize it’s dependency on ads for revenue. That is an interesting theory, but they have to sell 100 million of the things first. Good luck with that. They already have 100 million Android phones in circulation. Has anybody noticed a decline in ads? The hype around Glass reminds me of the hype around the Segway. Remember how it was going to revolutionize transportation?

Lest anyone thing I’m throwing stones in glass houses, just take a look at my comments regarding social networks in the second link in the first paragraph. I can be wrong too.

Robert Scoble has proclaimed Google Glass the next revolutionary
thing.
He did the same thing with RSS and
podcasting
back in 2004. RSS and podcasts are great. I was upset as anybody by the
demise of Google Reader. However, 98% of the world didn’t care…