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Look, I love Scoble, but his biggest weakness is a tendency to hyperbole (hey, it makes him perfect for an evangelism position, so at least he runs with it :)). When he says things like "Dave Winer changed the world", I have an awfully hard time reading the rest of the piece.

Dave Winer took a spec and hacked it up for his own uses. Hell, the majority of the usability in RSS didn't even come from Dave Winer: he had to be drug kicking and screaming through RDF to land with RSS 2 on the other side. And I don't know about Scoble's 18 readers or my 13 readers, but Winer definitely didn't evangelize to me.

Has your time at Userland so permanently skewed your view of reality? I think I get it now, why you think Echo is a challenge to Dave. It seems like you believe that Dave owns all things syndication, that any attempt to move beyond the humble beginnings (of RSS and the Blogger API) is a tribal leadership challenge.

Bill Gates changed the world. So did Linus Torvalds (had to be fair to the Linux-heads). Dave Winer has only changed a few geeks. You seriously over-estimate the impact of RSS.