Dave Thinks He Gets It
July 24th, 2007 by EyeOnWinerDave and I agree on one thing…
And in this case, I think I understated the danger of concentrating so much power in Feedburner, and its successor, Google.
If FeedBurner had the amount of power that Dave thinks they do, I would be concerned.
The problem is that they don’t have anywhere NEAR the power to do the things Dave claims they can do. Please. Ruin syndication and feedreaders by ruining their own services down? That’s like saying that the First Methodist Church here in town can destroy christianity by burning their sanctuary down. It’s more than a little silly.
The reason he won’t even approach acknowledging this fact is because he knows that people will start wondering what power they do have that might be scaring Dave and the answer will be “the power to turn the tide against RSS and toward ATOM.”
So don’t expect him to give any air-time to the idea that Google doesn’t have as much power in the RSS space as he takes as given.