4 years ahead, not too shabby

At one point, my good friend Jeff Vyduna of polleverywhere.com fame used to think that I was 6 months ahead of the curve.

I think I’ve kinda lost my mojo; certainly Jeff is more advanced than I am these days, especially since polleverywhere is a YC funded company.

But maybe compared to some mainstream tech bloggers, I’m not doing too badly. Farhad Manjoo wants us to kill our rss readers and points to this entry at DesignNotes as his inspiration.

I’ll just note that I wrote this entry on shared delicious bookmarks with ‘hourly’, ‘daily’, etc. tags in 2005. And my solution is still superior to Farhad’s since you can sync the bookmarks across multiple browsers on multiple computers.

I’ll wrap up by stating that I don’t understand Farhad’s complaint about the “bland” interface of an rss reader. He laments that he’s only getting text and not design.

Text — and not design — is exactly what I want. Most bloggers have approximately the same level of design skills that I have, which is approximately equal to the design skills of a blind, retarded monkey. I don’t want to see someone else’s horrible font and color combinations and whatever other pieces of flair they may have thought were a good idea.

I just want their ideas, as fast as possible. kthxbye.