Feedpass is simply a landing page service, that’s it. Whether the whole revenue thing is right or not (feels wrong to me) is a whole other question.

I just can’t understand why people are calling them a competitor to Feedburner, that’s crazy talk.

Yes and that is good. Ii is a step in the right direction in that is makes it clear that it is possible to make setting up RSS for others to use (e.g., bunches of feeds on library homepages for the use of patrons) understandable and doable for non-geeks. Anything that prods the RSS community into making things easier for those of us out here who want to educate our patrons and co-workers about RSS is good.

And the appearance of FeedPass has generated some discussion of who owns what on the Internet, which is good for everyone to think about every so often. FeedPass has its uses in terms of generating discussion. Bu it is, like Napster, predicated entirely upon profiting from the intellectual labor of others and that is just plain disgusting and probably wouldn’t hold up in court.

Hope