Thursday, August 14, 2003

E-mail publishing is dead.  Long live RSS. Chris Pirillo.  E-mail publishing is dead (it has been folded, spindled, and mutilated).  Long live RSS. If the world was a perfect place, e-mail publishing would still be a viable model for getting the word out. But marketers and morons (two groups that are far from mutually exclusive) have flooded the space with noise. So now, instead of spending our time on crafting quality content, we waste it with endless bickering. We now have to fight with ISPs, begging them to let our messages pass through without being filtered or flagged. The wonderful thing about RSS is that it is completely opt-in.  All of us in the RSS community need to make sure that RSS isn't co-opted/abused/hacked by the same spammers that destroyed the value of e-mail publishing.  Don't think that they won't try. [John Robb's Weblog] 6:43:26 AM  comment []    trackback []     WiFi phones? Has any used one of these new WiFi phones?  VoIP Internet appliances that use 801.11b.  With a P2P/VPN connection to a corporate gateway, this would be a nice system to use in a home office enabled with WiFi/DSL.  You could basically take your company phone system home with you or tote it around the office park. [John Robb's Weblog] 6:37:54 AM  comment []    trackback []

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