TechDirt asks in response to yesterday’s post: “When Did I Become The Bandleader For RSS Backlash?” I’m not trying to lead RSS backlash – I’m trying to figure out why there’s so much hype about the standard, when so little has been done to market what it’s useful for.I couldn’t agree more, and appreciate the clarification. If any clarification is needed on my part, it’s that perhaps we could call the sentiment an RSS hype backlash. Bashing RSS itself makes no sense given that every technology goes through the Gartner hype cycle. It’s a bit like html: we don’t get excited about html itself anymore, rather focus on the web it spawned. And on an amusing note, Phil Wolff is busy blogging about the “blogging backlash,” which is pretty funny in an Onion-humor kind of way. Anyway, he read my post and emailed me a link to his “Don’t blog: Headlines from the future” PowerPoint slide. I’m glad someone isn’t letting the blog world take itself too seriously. 🙂 Technology Industry