Bin Drinkin

Roy's post on RSS got me thinkin'. Well not thinkin, more got me in the mood to post something.  I don't think RSS is the wave of the future, I don't think bloggers should be considered in the same realm as professional journalism (no matter how unprofessional other paper journalist may be).  I've had a "blog" since freakin' 1996.  Long enough that I remember adding tables and background images to it because I thought they were cool.  I don't think my opinion matters at all, and I don't bitch everytime an article gets posted about online coverage of an event and the "blog community" doesn't get included in the "media" that covered it.  I take weblogs as they are:  A technology to easyily get people talking.  It's like XML Web Services.  It is no different than what I did in 1995 to make sure I could detect client side when an update was available to my machine.  But a "little" more standard than my custom format was.

Weblogs and RSS are a good two to three years from being usefull.  Daypop is coming close to making them usefull, showing what people are caring about.  But as the google and blogger.com fiasco has show, they really only show what the "weblog community" cares about, and frankly speaking they are a small, small minority of the people of the world.

Step 1:  Free bandwidth.  Bandwidth is the roads of the internet.  They should be like the roads I drive on.  I don't care if my taxes pay for them, I just want to know that if I have something popular to spit out that I won't be stuck with a freakin' $1000 bill from people wanting to check it out.  How the hell is that free speech?  Not everyone has Havard to pay for their weblog traffic...

I'm drunk again.