Comments on: Forbes, Webfeeds, and Ignorance http://www.contentious.com/2004/08/31/forbes-webfeeds-and-ignorance/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:13:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: F. Andy Seidl http://www.contentious.com/2004/08/31/forbes-webfeeds-and-ignorance/#comment-472 F. Andy Seidl Tue, 07 Sep 2004 03:59:51 +0000 #comment-472 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: <a href="http://myst-technology.com/mysmartchannels/public/item/12485">RSS: Disruptive Technology Hiding in Plain Sight"</a> http://myst-technology.com/mysmartchannels/public/item/12485 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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