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One of our heroes dies Permanent link to this item in the archive.

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MSNBC: "Gidget, the Chihuahua best known for her Taco Bell ad campaign, died from a stroke on Tuesday night at age 15."

5/6/98: "The dog is cool, and Taco Bell owns [her], for a while. Then some ad guy at some agency realizes that he could get a dog too and that dog could eat dog food and like all dogs that we love, the dog farts. Yay!"

Snappy retarded answers Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Joseph Smarr asked if I had a snappy answer to why rssCloud is better than The Leading Brand.

I said I do have snappy answers, but like all such answers, they are retarded.

But I gave him a list anyway.

1. Google sux.

Or

2. Feedburner sux.

Or

3. I love RSS, they haven't heard of it.

4. Simple is better.

5. Trade one Big centralized server owned by the tech industry for... another one? You must be kidding.

6. Let's have fun again!

I don't mean any of these things. It's the tech industry way of explaining why the BigCo won't crush your or eat your lunch, or worse, crush you and eat your lunch. In all my years in the tech biz, the only times I've seen the Bigs ever actually crush anyone was when the crushee bought into the crushing.

I don't think Google will crush RSS, any more than TechCrunch will. If they try they're:

1. Assholes.

2. Idiots.

3. Losers.

So they won't try. ;->

     

Last update: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 12:07 PM Pacific.



A picture named dave.jpgDave Winer, 54, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.

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