RSS

Phil Gomes sent over Feedburner's first market report, "Feed for Thought", to my Edelman address.  It makes an important point so many people don't get; good idea to pass it around.

The evolution (some might say revolution) in publishing is that we are working toward each person having their own custom newspaper every day (or every hour, or once a month, if they want).  Their sources for this custom newspaper may come from a publisher on any scale, from a 6,000-person organization to  some guy in Topeka.

So, the notion that RSS feeds would only come from blogs just because bloggers are the early adopters for said feed, is patently ridiculous.  The only thing that would prevent RSS readers from delivering content from large publishers is if the publishers boycotted RSS in a pathetic and misguided effort to cling to their dying business model.  We'll leave that realm for the telecom companies, and assume the large conventional publishers understand how much the net can help them grow, if leveraged properly.