Bootstrapping

Listened to Dave Winer and Adam Curry’s Trade Secrets audio show (I don’t plan on tuning in again, but hey, how about recording it in lower-fi and save some bandwidth bills for yourselves and others) and was amused at how much apparent angst went into dissecting the RSS (and Atom) support built into the new preview release of Firefox.

Sure, they claim that their lack of enthusiasm for this first utilization of RSS in a mainstream browser is because its not apparent to them whether this first support is useful or not, as if that would truly damage the continued evolution of RSS / Atom / aggregators and all things XML and holy.

Seems to me that Dave has forgotten what “bootstrapping” is all about.

And both forget that if the community can envision better, more compelling use cases, it will happen.