Wow, it is true: You really can get famous for what you write on your blog.

In my case, the pleasant surprise arrived in the form of an interview request from Ryan Singel, seeking to discuss my meltdown experiences from "TeledyN: The End of RSS", researching for an article for Wired. We chatted this afternoon about full-story feeds, about Conditional GET and broken desktop aggregators, and about what we can do about it, especially when the days of ubiquitous (and likely broken) desktop feed-readers may be closer than the mirrors suggest.

So I don't know if I'm precisely propelled into the realm of punditry yet, but surely this counts as being fingered as the expert witness or at minimum, with all those tales of spinning wheels of fire descending on the multitudes from above, maybe I'll rate a cite as a full-fledged Prophet of Doom.

Now, of course, I have a dilemma: Being quoted in Wired is almost certain to accellerate the growth in my website traffic (already 10-15% per month) bringing with it that brick wall of the bit cap. I'm not complaining (it kinda tickles actually) but I thought I'd mention it now so you all will know when the Bandwidth Exceeded page shows up.