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FeedBurner and Dave (continued)
Dave Winer is using the FeedBurner/Google transaction to make some good points about the value of open versus closed and hopefully Google will listen to Dave and others who want to make sure that feeds remain an open ecosystem. That's all good.
But I really have a problem with the headline Dave's using, "Why FeedBurner is Trouble". I don't really think that's the way to make friends and influence people. Which is what blogging is all about.
Comments (8) | Posted July 24, 2007 in Venture Capital and Technology
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I worked for a VP who used to say, "Cory, when I go into a meeting, I make a plan of how I want to make an impact on people to deliver a message." Needless to say, I could never tell if this manager was "playing the part" to gain a response or really meant what he was saying. Regardless, he was very effective in moving the troops.
To that end, I'm not sure I agree that blogging is necessarily about making friends. Mr. Winer's title likely was drafted to get Google to read the post, which I'm sure they did.
re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_pulpit
Posted by: CoryS | Jul 24, 2007 9:16:04 AM
I read the post yesterday and thought it was a good insightful post. The title of it obviously isn't meant to start making friends, and Dave Winer (from what I've read) isn't the personality type to sugercoat.
I'm not sure why this is something you should really care about unless you are championing Feedburner for your previous association.
Fred, sometimes I think you are as good a marketer as a VC. Reading your blog has proven to me how relative the two practices are.
Posted by: Robert John Ed | Jul 24, 2007 9:57:12 AM
The great thing about blogs is that they make it possible for us to hear lots of points of view. I call this triangulation. Before blogs, esp in technology news, we only heard the point of view of the money -- because reporters couldn't afford to antagonize advertisers or the superstars of tech (they need them for their cover stories).
When I started blogging it was because that press wasn't carrying *my* message, in fact they were telling people that my software didn't exist (I was a Mac developer at the time).
So I accept that you, Fred, think blogging is making friends, but my view is quite different. I like making friends, but I have different friends from you. :-)
Posted by: Dave Winer | Jul 24, 2007 11:49:12 AM
Loren Feldman responds:
http://www.1938media.com/the-language-police-strike-again/
Posted by: Matt M. | Jul 24, 2007 11:53:08 AM
looks like Google is trying to pull a Microsoft on a different platform. thanks for the pointer.
Posted by: jer979 | Jul 24, 2007 12:12:58 PM
The title of Dave's post? Meh. The post itself? Seems scaremongery but well-intentioned as it's always good to examine the ethical motives of powerful organizations. Luckily, I can't imagine either Google Reader or Feedburner or anybody deciding things for these teams doing anything so user-unfriendly, e.g. dropping support for open feed formats. But I worked on Google Reader from its start so I obviously have a biased point of view.
Posted by: Chris Wetherell | Jul 24, 2007 1:21:09 PM
I feel like Fred might be missing part of Dave's point which I interpreted as the inherent conflict that exists when a huge company like Google operates any kind of closed system, no matter how altruistically.
That said, Dave's headline isn't really warranted as Dick and the guys over at Feedburner have done nothing but good for RSS, something Dave is perhaps a bit protective of for understandable reasons.
Posted by: Ben McInnis | Jul 24, 2007 1:24:14 PM
Like the Dale Carnegie reference. That is what blogging's all about.
Posted by: Ben Homer | Jul 24, 2007 9:56:00 PM
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