Scoble on The RSS Advisory Board

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:09:51 GMT

Robert Scoble had some interesting misunderstandings to say this weekend about The RSS Advisory Board. His blog entry has already been mostly butchered with corrections as people point out his numerous misunderstandings, but there remains a few more which I'd like to address.

First, Scoble says "the RSS Advisory board, which includes members from Cisco, Yahoo, Netscape, FeedBurner (er, Google), Microsoft, and Bloglines". That's entirely true. What he fails to point out is the those BigCos make up only 6 of the 14 members of the RSS Advisory Board. Less than half. That's very deceptive and I'm disappointed that he'd try to pull that on his readers. Most of the members of the board are from small companies Rogers Cadenhead is an author of technical books and professional blogger. James Holderness works on an RSS reader called Snarfer. Meg Hourihan is a professional blogger. Loic Le Meur works for Six Apart (not a BigCo). Greg Smith works on an RSS reader called FeederReader. The board is controlled by SmallCos, not BigCos. Don't be fooled by Scoble.
Second, Scoble says "this new unofficial board". New? It's been around since 2003. Second, it's the official board. It was created by Dave Winer himself. Who later resigned. In fact, it was Dave that put Rogers Cadenhead, the current chair, on the board. I'll recount the history of the board in a later post.
Last, he says "The big companies are in charge and weâve gotta deal with any mess they get together and create for all of us." Well, they aren't in charge. Rogers Cadenhead is the chair of the RSS Advisory Board and he doesn't work for a BigCo. And, as I've already mentioned, less than half the board is manned by employees of BigCos. In fact, the three most active members of the board, Rogers, James and myself are not employees of any BigCo.

http://scobleizer.com/2007/07/22/feedburner-bad-for-us/

All in all, this is very disappointing of Robert. I suspect that he was fed the propaganda from Dave Winer and he was likely completely misinformed of the truth.

Disclaimer: I am a member of The RSS Advisory Board. I also created a website r-mail.org, which was purchased by NBC (a BigCo). I am on temporary contract to transition the website to NBC, but I am not an employee of any company. I'm a professional RV Blogger.

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