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May 13, 2005

Dave Winer's Pisa Podcast

If you're new to blogs and would like to listen to a good summary of what they're all about from one of the original bloggers, check out Dave Winer's recent podcast. It's a good one.

For the less patient, let me summarize a few of the salient points:

12:55 - Dave talks about how we're moving from a period of information poverty to a period of information excess in a very short period of time. He uses the example of booking a trip to London, finding out the weather, what shows are in town, buying some tickets, finding the best place to stay, book a room, etc... very difficult to do in 1992, extremely easy in 2005.

Not only has the amount of info gone up, but our expectation about that information has gone up drastically. People are moving in to provide that information, and RSS automates the gathering of said information to allow us to absorb even more of of it more quickly.

15:55 - Dave likens RSS to a "sushi resturant conveyor belt". Instead of picking the meal you want as it flows past you on the conveyor, you subscribe to a feed and pick out the information you find interesting. You don't have to go get the information, it comes to you. It automates your web surfing.

17:40 - NYT estimates that within 3 years 25% of its traffic will come through RSS feeds.

22:55 - Central thesis might be summarized to say that the drive is away from centralized product and information creation and towards a decentralized world where everyone is empowered to be creative, and blogging and RSS facillitate that movement.

Julie Leung has here own interpetation, and Dave continues the conversation here.

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