The anti-RSS hype

Over on Slashdot it’s useful to read all the anti-RSS comments on this post that revealed a survey that Yahoo and Ipsos did that found only 4% of users are using RSS.

Heh, I LOVE this thinking. Let’s go back to 1978. How many computer users were personal computer users back then?

These guys remind me of the Unix system administrators who, back in 1991 when I was in school made fun of me (I kept evangelizing the Mac to them) saying “who needs a toy computer with a mouse and menus?”

Yeah, who does? 🙂

In the meantime, you try to read 743 Web sites in a browser. Go ahead and try. I dare you.

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