Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog

François Schiettecatte responds to the “controversy” today with a blog post clarifying his role with the company.

There was quite a bit of conversation in the blogosphere last week about the departure of Feedster’s founder. To clarify, I am the co-founder of Feedster and our Chief Scientist. I have intentionally avoided personal acknowledgment for Feedster’s growth and our increasing profile in the marketplace, but for the record, I developed Feedster’s core functionality and I am very involved in the evolution of the Feedster search engine and related products.

It then dawned on me that literally no one at Feedster is active in the blogosphere. Am I wrong here? That’s a really bad sign. I know they have a few corporate blogs but they really aren’t active.

Blogs are a sign of passion. Without passion you don’t have a team that cares. Take Technorati for instance. If Technorati was hit by a meteor tomorrow Tantek would still be working on on microformats , Niall would still be podcasting, and Kevin Marks would still be inventing podcasting.

Dave Sifry and I were talking about this at the Syndicate Conference. Alpha geeks don’t have a choice here. We live for technology. It’s part of our lives. It’s part of our blood. We can’t help but not work at startups. We can’t help but want to work on revolutionary technologies.

It’s a form of insanity really. You should pity us.

Maybe I’m wrong but I’m not seeing this out of Feedster lately.