Yesterday a colleague asked me why I was teaching him about RSS. He thought it was cool, but didn’t think it was my job to introduce employees to new technology. He right — on paper my job is to manage a public web site. However, my job as I choose to define it is to offer as many options for content delivery as possible. In order to do that, I need to have intelligent conversations with people about those options. I can’t be the only one in my organization who uses RSS or thinks about its possibilities.

I thought it was an obvious answer, but he seemed astonished. *sigh*