David Beisel talks about edge aggregation and does a much better job articulating some of the issues I’ve had with the idea. Give it a read.

His final thought touches on a crucial concept that I think many are currently missing: “Consumers want to produce content how they want to, where they want to, and when they want to. And it doesn’t seem to be that that’s necessarily on the Edge.” Truthfully, I think David misses the mark by a single word: “need” rather than “want”. As in, “consumers need to produce content how they want to, where they want to, and when they want to.” A single word, a major difference.

David’s best thought is this one: “Perhaps it’s not an either/or proposition. Is the real answer services which mix both effectively aggregated decentralized content and provide easy-to-use methods for creating it as well?”

This is the thought bouncing around my head that I’ve been calling The Struggle - there’s a complicated task/challenge to David’s thought and it’s being able to appropriately identify and integrate acceptable consumer-centric web-friendly practices with the promise of aggregated decentralized content. I don’t think this idea is prominent enough when the edge is discussed, and until it is I don’t think we’ll see the edge successfully adopted.

I like that we both ended up concluding our current thoughts on the subject with a disclaimer for having scattered commentary. There is no better reward to blogging than sharing a scattered thought and having its form take shape with the help of brilliant conversations.

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