Comments on: Paul, I Agree http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/04/paul_i_agree.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paul_i_agree Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Thu, 23 May 2013 12:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Halfdeck http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/04/paul_i_agree.php#comment-10704 Halfdeck Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:12:36 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/04/paul_i_agree.php#comment-10704 <p>Writing biased, sensational posts seems like a fad that just refuses to go away. Don't get me wrong - I'm all for biased opinions, but when they have no legs to stand on, they make fools out of people who write them.</p> Writing biased, sensational posts seems like a fad that just refuses to go away. Don’t get me wrong – I’m all for biased opinions, but when they have no legs to stand on, they make fools out of people who write them.

]]> By: Oracep http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/04/paul_i_agree.php#comment-10703 Oracep Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:31:38 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/04/paul_i_agree.php#comment-10703 <p>Still searching for a name, John?</p> <p>Way back Dec 2003 you said:</p> <p>Funny how am idea gathers momentum. As I was penning my Implications of RSS For Business column for 2.0 (awaiting publication in dead tree form in three weeks), Scott Rosenberg was writing a pean as well, published in Salon this morning. He suggests we need a name for what RSS represents, just as the Web became the mainstream's understanding of HTML, we need a name for RSS. He reminds us we've been here before (remember Push? I was a reluctant contributor to this 1996 article, which began as an email thread in the Wired offices...)<br /> In any case, I agree with Scott, we need a name. All the businesses in this space are still in the pre-market phase. RSS allows us to connect more efficiently, to grok information as we like it, when we like it - but what do we call it? I like to say my reader and blogs/news sources is my personal ecology - is there an idea in there somewhere? In any case, it's exciting to see the idea start to take popular flight. Watch for the NYT treatment soon. </p> Still searching for a name, John?

Way back Dec 2003 you said:

Funny how am idea gathers momentum. As I was penning my Implications of RSS For Business column for 2.0 (awaiting publication in dead tree form in three weeks), Scott Rosenberg was writing a pean as well, published in Salon this morning. He suggests we need a name for what RSS represents, just as the Web became the mainstream’s understanding of HTML, we need a name for RSS. He reminds us we’ve been here before (remember Push? I was a reluctant contributor to this 1996 article, which began as an email thread in the Wired offices…)
In any case, I agree with Scott, we need a name. All the businesses in this space are still in the pre-market phase. RSS allows us to connect more efficiently, to grok information as we like it, when we like it – but what do we call it? I like to say my reader and blogs/news sources is my personal ecology – is there an idea in there somewhere? In any case, it’s exciting to see the idea start to take popular flight. Watch for the NYT treatment soon.

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