Sunday, June 12, 2011

Glassboard: Rock Star Team Regroups From RSS-Land to Tackle Private Mobile Content Sharing

Great commentary on the state of humanity by Marshall Firzpatrick!

"My take on it is this, and I'll try to say this without getting too upset about it: the lack of uptake of RSS reading software by consumers and businesses is among the turns of events in recent technology history that's most disparaging of the state of humanity. That a personalized, centralized repository for updates from dynamic streams of information delivered by free trusted sources of democratic publishing all over the world has had its tech-lunch eaten by mind-rotting casual Flash games on Facebook is as depressing as the way that public education dreams were dashed when the promise of television became its reality. It's like the psychedelic dreams of Harvard's Dr. Timothy Leary becoming the wretched, heartbreaking narcotic drama of the TV show The Wire. It's terrible. It's reason to pack it all up and go home."

Read the rest of his post here 

http://m.readwriteweb.com/archives/glassboard_rock_star_team_regroups_from_rss-land_t.php

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