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…
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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…