{"id":405,"date":"2009-09-04T14:33:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T22:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/?p=312"},"modified":"2009-09-04T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T22:33:50","slug":"rss-has-just-become-plumbing-its-not-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/rss-has-just-become-plumbing-its-not-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS Has Just Become Plumbing, It&#8217;s Not Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some arguments in the blogosphere whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/09\/02\/oh-rss-is-definitely-dead-now-feedburner-ceo-dick-costolo-to-become-twitter-coo\/\">&#8220;RSS is Dead&#8221;<\/a> or not. Fred Wilson, as usual, makes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avc.com\/a_vc\/2009\/09\/rss-is-alive-and-well.html\">correct observation<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> RSS i<\/span>s way more than the readers it spawned. It is a fundamental part of the Internet architecture and is used for all sorts of things. It&#8217;s the subscribe system of the internet and a &#8216;default function&#8217; in the Internet operating system&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Quoting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidmercuryblog.com\/\">Kid Mercury<\/a>, he continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>i think the problem stems from the fact that the geeks embraced RSS and thought it would be a consumer technology. but alas, it was not meant to be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is exactly my argument about <a href=\"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/big_picture\/the-open-stack-or-mere-plumbing\">plumbing<\/a> from a couple of weeks ago. It&#8217;s interesting that Fred seems to think the ultimate product containing all that plumbing is the &#8220;Internet operating system&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s close to the concept of a &#8220;web operating system&#8221; that <a href=\"http:\/\/factoryjoe.com\/blog\/\">Chris Messina<\/a> and I were discussing recently, which was the conversation that prompted me to write about plumbing in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some arguments in the blogosphere whether &#8220;RSS is Dead&#8221; or not. Fred Wilson, as usual, makes the correct observation that: But RSS is way more than the readers it spawned. It is a fundamental part of the Internet architecture and is used for all sorts of things. It&#8217;s the subscribe system of the internet and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big_picture","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}