Archives for February 2005

are Toronto-based home builders that offer traditional models but have also been developing a niche developing beautiful Modernist homes and prefabs as well. Even better, they have a blog with all sorts of great stuff about Modernist architecture and its revival.

Last week Scoble wrote

February 23, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Last week Scoble wrote

that building a marketing site without including RSS feeds should be a firing offense, and today he updated his post with links to comments from a couple of Jupiter analysts: Eric Peterson and Michael Gartenberg.

I mostly agree with Scoble, but I think he’s expressing it backwards. The point isn’t to have RSS, period, the point is to quit building boring, static sites – sites that frankly aren’t a good fit for RSS. After all, a static site with RSS but no updates doesn’t really make a blip in any newsreader until it updates. Static site = nothing new to come down the RSS pipe = site that few will notice or care about.

So rather than insisting that sites need RSS, I think it’s more useful to suggest that marketing sites should include at least a small dynamic, regularly updating component and hopefully quite a bit more. In that context, to leave out an RSS feed is ridiculous. But it’s not about the feed, primarily, but about the content on the site in the first place.

[Note: I posted virtually the same thing already in the comments at Dave Winer’s RSS site]