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Forbes, Webfeeds, and Ignorance

A couple of days ago I posted an item on the Poynter Institute’s E Media Tidbits blog concerning some weirdness over webfeeds witnessed recently at Forbes Magazine. See: Forbes and Webfeeds: Now They Get It, Now They Don’t. Check it out – it’s a clear example of how some people in the media (allegedly a fast-moving, forward-looking industry) can be stunningly resistant to the very idea of change.

Oh, and one thing I forgot to mention in that Tidbits item: Forbes also recently began offering its own collection of webfeeds.

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One Comment

  1. Its easier to understand someone’s inability to appreciate RSS if you think in terms of disruptive vs. sustaining innovation. It may well be that RSS does little to improve *what this particular review cares about*. The Forbes reviewer is assessing RSS as a sustaining innovation–which it is not; it is a disruptive innovation–not something that plays the game better, something that plays a different game.

    I wrote about this very issue a year ago:

    RSS: Disruptive Technology Hiding in Plain Sight”
    http://myst-technology.com/mysmartchannels/public/item/12485

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    1. F. Andy Seidl on September 6th, 2004 at 10:59 pm