RSS feedI’ve been fascinated recently with the opinion and perspectives of certain weblog celebrities, and where they think “syndication” is headed. This interesting teleconference brings six of them together to discuss syndication’s future, and while they can all pretty much see the future of weblogging and low bandwidth mobile devices and their inherent push-publish nature, several of them can’t see very far past it. A brief tangent into scanning vs. reading seems to be the litmus test, and whether you see feeds as simple lossy summaries (the traditional content publisher’s fairly blinkered view of the future), or whether you see, as we do, feeds as the beginning of something much more significant.
It reminds me of the pre-bubble days, when you never really knew who got it, who didn’t get it, and who just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
These days, when Crossing the Chasm should be a mantra for all technology companies in the personal publishing space, there are surprisingly very few people talking about what they think will really happen next. An interesting catch-22 perhaps, and a test of technological faith for all of us, on the the eve of the next big information revolution.
(Originally posted to Synop weblog)