feed and burn

Dave Winer just offered his mini-review on FeedBurner. He’s right—that vendors are providing a “solution” to the format wars isn’t an actual solution, it’s more like a market-hack. It’s a good product to an unfortunate reality of this culture that thinks the platform should be owned instead of shared. Just compare the rollout of the original black and white TVs to the new digital and HDTV formats, with broadcast flags and vchips galore. Collaborating on standards and building off them responsibly is the real solution. You are, after all, talking about the ground on which you’re building what really matters—your products.

In any case, after all the recent discussions on refining permalinks, it seems odd that anyone would handoff URI ownership of their feeds to a domain they don’t control. If it’s not under your own hostname, more likely than not, that location will change in time.