I sort of wasted my night last night reading old archived posts put up around the time Kathy Sierra quit blogging, and try to draw some conclusions on the differences in blogging style from 2007 to 2009.
That's why I always go with different categories - I track an unusually large number of feeds, so not everything is of equal importance every day. On slow news days, though, I make my way down the categories I have organized in order of priority.
I intentionally subscribe to more feeds than I need so I'm never without, but don't feel guilty about not reading them all.
I've always felt that Google was a benevolent overlord. That may change at some point, and at that point I'll leave. Until then, I'm ok with being dependent on them for almost everything.
I'm sorry, but I agree with almost everything in this post. Not to start a platform war or anything, but Drupal seems like the best CMS in the world until you figure out that you can do it all in half the time using Wordpress.
.. in which I rehash my theory as to how a federated microblogging network could supplant Twitter, as well as correct the truly puzzling analysis from Erick Schonfeld.
Here's the problem with oversimplifying it to client/server mainframe terminology - people get all caught up in the fact that client/server stuff isn't "new," and thus since it went out of vogue some time back, it's disproven technology.
The fact is, whether or not the "average user" doesn't understand the difference doesn't mean there isn't one.
The average user doesn't understand the difference between a lithium ion battery and a nicad battery.. The average user doesn't understand the difference between an internal combustion engine and a hybrid electric engine. Just because different technologies appear different on the surface doesn't mean that there aren't fundamental differences under the hood.
It's important to clearly define these differences, particularly for those who are choosing to participate in cloud punditry but can't be bothered to look up the wikipedia entry on cloud computing.
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