One of our heroes dies 

MSNBC: "Gidget, the Chihuahua best known for her Taco Bell ad campaign, died from a stroke on Tuesday night at age 15."

5/6/98: "The dog is cool, and Taco Bell owns [her], for a while. Then some ad guy at some agency realizes that he could get a dog too and that dog could eat dog food and like all dogs that we love, the dog farts. Yay!"

Snappy retarded answers 

Joseph Smarr asked if I had a snappy answer to why rssCloud is better than The Leading Brand.

I said I do have snappy answers, but like all such answers, they are retarded.

But I gave him a list anyway.

1. Google sux.

Or

2. Feedburner sux.

Or

3. I love RSS, they haven't heard of it.

4. Simple is better.

5. Trade one Big centralized server owned by the tech industry for... another one? You must be kidding.

6. Let's have fun again!

I don't mean any of these things. It's the tech industry way of explaining why the BigCo won't crush your or eat your lunch, or worse, crush you and eat your lunch. In all my years in the tech biz, the only times I've seen the Bigs ever actually crush anyone was when the crushee bought into the crushing.

I don't think Google will crush RSS, any more than TechCrunch will. If they try they're:

1. Assholes.

2. Idiots.

3. Losers.

So they won't try.