Eric Peterson Smacks Scoble a bit

Michael Gartenberg | February 23, 2005, 08:24 AM

Eric uses a lot more words than I was going to. My comment was going to be, "when all you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail." The answer to all life's issues and marketing problems isn't RSS. Blogging is a good thing but it isn't the only thing and it's starting to feel like the late 90's when everyone was scrambling to get a website together and get online. Not everyone should be blogging and not every blog should be syndicated. I repeat, the answer to every question is not a weblog and an RSS feed.

Robert Scoble, the self-described Microsoft Geek Blogger, recently blogged about an unsatisfying interaction he had with another softie. In his post, he says emphatically, and I quote: "Sorry, if you do a marketing site and you don't have an RSS feed today you should be fired. I'm sorry, Robert, but you're wrong. Most "marketing sites" are static and relatively boring from a content standpoint, rarely updating the message for any reason other than to foist a new press release or announce a new beta version. Directing these types of sites to further pollute the blogosphere with feeds that nobody will read is irresponsible. [Eric Peterson]