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Again, I must interpret/translate for the masses

I've been debating how to handle this.

[[Handle what, exactly? Using a pronoun before any nouns are used is a recipe for disaster. In this case, the reader has no idea what you are not sure how to handle.]]

Do I just ignore it; i.e. send a negative gesture of lack of intent? Or do I play nice and debate the points one by one; i.e. send a neutral gesture of balanced dialogue? Nope.

[[By "Nope.", do you mean that you choose to do the first action or the second? Or neither?]]

Stowe Boyd's post about RSS is flawed. Flawed in that it is totally wrong.

[[This would have lasted about 2 seconds in any freshman-level liberal arts course. What post? You did not even link to it, let alone quote from it. And you provide no evidence whatsoever that it is "totally wrong". Are we supposed to assume that you are right, and we don't even know what you are right about?]]

Scoble is right. Stowe is not.

[[See above.]]

RSS will continue to dominate and eventually suck all the oxygen out of the glorious Web as we currently adore it.

[[RSS will continue to dominate what? "Dominate" means "to have power over". What exactly does RSS have power over? My car? The Web? The Death Star? Is the metaphor "suck all the oxygen out of..." supposed to be a good thing, or a bad thing? From the way I read this, RSS is strangling the Web, which is a bad thing, because we "adore" the Web.]]

We as in Stowe.

[[Oh, wait a second. "We" no longer means "myself and others as well, included in the same group?" Now "we" means "one particular person"? So this totally changes the meaning from above. Now, RSS is indeed strangling the Web, but this is only a bad thing from the viewpoint of this mysterious "Stowe" character, who we still have not been introduced to, formally or informally.]]

What possibly leads Stowe to the conclusion that RSS will not absorb all of the wonderful (sic) Web characteristics like blogrolls, whirling beanies, and other smoke and awe? RSS is the Web, Stowe. It's the Web on steroids. It saves time. It wins.

[[Once again, the reader does not know who "Stowe" is, nor has the author provided a link to what this "Stowe" has written. Maybe "Stowe" has laid out a very clear reason why he does not think that RSS will "dominate the Web", and you just don't understand his logic. To compound the problem, once again we see an argument that "we" (the audience, in case "we" was unclear) are supposed to accept, prima facie AND a priori (always a bad combination) based on zero evidence or even logic. How is RSS "the Web on steroids"? As far as I know, RSS is simply a (sort of) standard for an XML file that resides on a server, with information about the content on that website; presumably the server updates that file with new/changed content, and the consumer periodically checks that file for changes. How is that "the Web on steroids"? Sounds an awful lot like a technically simplified version of the "channels" that Microsoft tried (and failed) with about 8 years ago. More to the point, if RSS does assume all of those other rolls you mentioned, then it no longer saves time, it simply becomes the same thing as the Web, but put in my face on a scheduled basis, as opposed to when I have the time for it.]]

It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

[[Is this an insult directed at "Stowe", or the audience?]]

I am sure that you have a lot of interesting things to say, but no one can understand them. Please start writing like a writer. Your articles in their current format read like some bizarre dialect of Valley Girl.

J.Ja

Posted by: Justin James   Posted on: 02/07/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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