The real victims of the Syndication Wars is the end-user. As we fight for RSS and Atom and all that API crap, the end user finds himself struggling w/ incompatible technologies. Earlier today, I spent a good part of an hour trying to help a user who couldn't subscribe to his own Blogger feed using My.Yahoo! Here's this user's rant from our Yahoo! MSGer conversation, which he agreed I could distribute w/ personal references removed.
- excuse me for being blunt...
- but ...
- ..."what on earth"...are they getting hyper about RSS-"being the kewl thing"...if the "dudes in charge"...won't work together...
- there's not much point in having "standardization" when the various players wont work together...
- ...i'm just looking at it from "the end user"...I personally don't are if my feed is 'valid or not"...just as long as I can type into my blog, and people can read it...
- Do you know how much this nation "tell the other world" about how we are "better than the world"...but we can't get people to work together?
- This is ridiculous.
- I'm just a blogger.
- I don't care about the politics.
- But when I'm "falling into th ebait" of trying to get a "validation" its really annoying to find out "the problem isn't with me" ... but a few gentlement who can't simply "rise to the occaision" and sho wthe world "this is what we can do"...
- This is vary disappoiting.
- And I am troubled that all this time that I've spent on this ...
- and it's a waste of everyone's time.
- In the meantime...I haven't been able to focus on my blog...and these technical issues are "getting in the way"...I realize it's new, beta [-blah, blah]...but ,. hay... we're all "going along on this grand voyage together"...
- it's not like I've been blogging for 30 years...
- but to find out that th e"problems we're having" have nothing to do with me...
- and that the guys who are in charge of standarization...don't have thei rown sites validated....
- and then I can't get my feed to work...because they don't - can -- aren't focused [whatever]...I say..."Who are they to lecture anyone aobut IPOs, stocks, feed, advertising, promotions]....
- OK.
- Well,
- thaks for listing to me rant.
My answer to him?
- you are exactly correct
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