This just in: establishment still blind to change until it runs over them

I think the subject line pretty much sums up my take on this. Ignore the
future at your peril.

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ZDNet's David Berlind talks about how a Wall Street Journal reporter told
him that a source in the financial sector said that Web sites with content
in reverse-chronilogical order are insignificant and that podcasting is
nothing that anyone has to pay attention to.

Oh, he's right! How many readers a day do I have? A few thousand? Maybe
10,000 on a good day. Now, how many users of computers are there? Hundreds
of millions, right?

But that's totally missing the point. How many people does it take to
change the world? Not many. .NET was done by a handful of people. From what
I hear from Apple the iPod team was a handful of people. From what I hear
from my friends in politics change in massive policies usually happens due
to a handful of people. Ever watch the West Wing? They say it's pretty
close to how it's done.

I've seen what happens when Dave Winer and Adam Curry get together.
Podcasting happens.

So, it doesn't take too many people reading you to make some wild things
happen.

I am just wondering: who's next to change the world?