Comments on: Dave: A Paranoid Dinosaur http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2007/dave-a-paranoid-dinosaur Keeping an eye on Dave Winer Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:41:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Zaphodim http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2007/dave-a-paranoid-dinosaur/comment-page-1#comment-474 Zaphodim Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:20:39 +0000 http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2007/dave-a-paranoid-dinosaur#comment-474 <p>Dave: <i>I would have been concerned no matter who bought Feedburner, had it been Microsoft or Yahoo, or Fox or even Cisco ...</i></p> <p>Would he have been concerned if Verisign bought it? I don't recall any of this kvetching when he sold it another resource integral to blogging for a couple mil.</p> Dave: I would have been concerned no matter who bought Feedburner, had it been Microsoft or Yahoo, or Fox or even Cisco …

Would he have been concerned if Verisign bought it? I don’t recall any of this kvetching when he sold it another resource integral to blogging for a couple mil.

]]> By: EyeOnWiner http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2007/dave-a-paranoid-dinosaur/comment-page-1#comment-473 EyeOnWiner Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:23:25 +0000 http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2007/dave-a-paranoid-dinosaur#comment-473 <p>Good point. I hadn't put the Google/ATOM thing together until you posted it.</p> Good point. I hadn’t put the Google/ATOM thing together until you posted it.

]]> By: Tom http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2007/dave-a-paranoid-dinosaur/comment-page-1#comment-472 Tom Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:14:39 +0000 http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2007/dave-a-paranoid-dinosaur#comment-472 <p>I think you're misreading this. Certainly there's a feel of general paranoia here but I think the most telling line in the whole thing is...</p> <p>"So now someone at Google "owns" Feedburner and all their feeds. And they could, if they wanted to, change the feeds to another format, overnight, without asking anyone"</p> <p>The truth is, as you pointed out above, if Google ever did anything that nefarious with feedburner people would just leave. It isn’t that hard. What I bet keeps Dave up at night is the fact that Google could turn all the RSS feeds to Atom feeds and no one would give a damn. Suddenly there are more Atom feeds than RSS feeds and Dave’s beloved (and possibly largely manufactured) legacy starts to go down the drain.</p> I think you’re misreading this. Certainly there’s a feel of general paranoia here but I think the most telling line in the whole thing is…

“So now someone at Google “owns” Feedburner and all their feeds. And they could, if they wanted to, change the feeds to another format, overnight, without asking anyone”

The truth is, as you pointed out above, if Google ever did anything that nefarious with feedburner people would just leave. It isn’t that hard. What I bet keeps Dave up at night is the fact that Google could turn all the RSS feeds to Atom feeds and no one would give a damn. Suddenly there are more Atom feeds than RSS feeds and Dave’s beloved (and possibly largely manufactured) legacy starts to go down the drain.

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