'Twas the blog before Christmas

'Twas the blog before Christmas, when all through the house No blogger was stirring, no hand moved the mouse. The postings were stacked by the tag cloud with care, In hopes that more readers soon would be there; The users were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of updates danced in their heads; And me with my podcast, downloaded like that, Had just settled down for a long winter's nap, When out from my laptop there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my desk to see what was the matter. Away to the portal I flew like a flash, Tore open the reader and refreshed the cache. The enclosure attached soon gave me to know That new entries were here, more news I should know. When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a raft of new updates, eight headlines so clear, With a quick Wiki update, who could it be? Our investor, of course, a leading VC. More rapid than eagles his portfolio came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name; "Now, Blogspot! Now Feedster! now, Movable Type! On, FeedBurner, FeedBlitz! (On Marketing Hype!) To the top of the feed! To the top of them all! Now blog away! blog away! blog away all!" As valuations that before the wild bubble do fly, When they meet with a fund, mount up to the sky, So up to the top of the investments they flew, With RSS data, and named it Web 2. And then, with a twinkling, I read in my news Each notable posting, contrary views. As I drew back my hand, and was turning around, Down to my trackback he came with a bound. His comments were brief, what was ado? Were adwords OK? Did users click through? A bundle of mashups he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. Our AJAX - how it twinkled! Our tagging - how merry! We socially networked to his brand new BlackBerry! Our RSS valid, we were well syndicated, We subscribed to the feeds that we loved (and we hated); The stump of our web site held tight in our teeth, The hyperbole encircled his head like a wreath; We tagged Technorati, we blogged with the best, On Feedster we surged and made the A-list. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself; A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread; He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And marked us on Frappr, and Flickr he searched. And laying his finger aside of his nose, Updated his blog, up our OPML rose; He sprang to his feed, gave his investments a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, "HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!" ** With best wishes from FeedBlitz to everyone this holiday season! (c) www.feedblitz.com 2005 Full reproduction permitted only with full attribution and links intact. Technorati: FeedBlitz RSS Bloglet