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Mar
28
(2005)
OK. A rant taken from Robert Scoble’s playlist.
John Carmack – the guy that wrote Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3 Arena, Doom 3, and is trying to get into orbit with his own personal venture – has a blog.
But no RSS. WTF? Is he hand-rolling the pages in EMACS? Using some POS app that doesn’t do RSS? Have enough rock-star-zillionaire-programmer-groupies that he can’t imagine people not camping on his page waiting for updates?
I’m perfectly fine with his once-per-season posting routine – but when he does post something, I’ll want to read it, and I’ll never know about with without an RSS feed…
yeah, it’s amazing how much RSS rules my life. Pretty much if there’s no RSS, I don’t read it.
It’s bad enough that we’re raising (becoming?) a generation where if it’s not online it doesn’t exist, now that is extending to “if it doesn’t have a feed, I don’t have time for it”
Everything needs RSS feeds… Hey – we should bake in an RSS feed for Pachyderm – most recently published presentations!
Yes he should have RSS. But there’s nothing wrong with hand-rolling the pages in EMACS. There’s a virtue in it.
Stephen, you’re right… EMACS is a great tool, and is especially handy for editing files on a remote server. I often use it to tweak live html files. But if you have to keep paying your dues every time you edit a file, it just won’t scale
Let the software do the heavy lifting for you, and you’ll be more likely to keep publishing…