Well, let me first say that the author of RSSCalendar has done a really good job. I signed up and tried it out, and it does some cool stuff. Luckily for me, some of the ideas I have are not a part of the RSSCalendar offerings (not at this point, anyway), so I have some room to be creative while looking up ahead at a great example that validates the basic idea. On the other hand, this site has apparently been around since September 2004 or so, and while I did develop my idea before ever coming across this site, I will have to address that at some point, if only for my own peace of mind.

Tbat leads me to divulge my biggest problem when it comes to my attempts to be an entrepreneur. I think I do okay with the creativity side of things, and sometimes I can come up with a business angle (and sometimes the angle I come up with is just flat wrong), and sometimes I even come up with what seems like a nice, top-to-bottom concept that just might work and be cool at the same time. My main problem is in executing on the idea, and the root cause of this problem is-- as my friend Mike Mathog put it-- my lack of infrastructure.

When he put it that way, I at first thought he was suggesting that the idea I was describing-- a concept I wanted to pursue about 4 or 5 years ago that I was calling CarComms that was basically wireless car-car networks and the assiated safety and commerce applications-- would have no place in the environment of that time period since wireless networking was just catching on and car companies are notoriously slow to adopt to technologies (or they were).

But no, what he meant was that without a development infrastructure-- including some funding, some people to help with development, some people to bounce ideas off of, some people to do some marketing of the concept to bring the idea to the real world and make money with it-- I am basically a doodler sketching all sorts of stuff that will never happen. I can't begin to express how frustratingly true this is.

Anyway, as I write this I'm working on the back-end design for my own event-calendar site, so I guess more than anything I wanted to get my point out there, that I did have this great idea a couple of weeks ago, and as is so often the case, so did someone else, a couple of months ago. I think RSSCalendar and my approach to it will actually complement each other, and it would be interesting to see if we could interoperate in some way. That will be a discussion to have when I have something to show for all of my block diagrams and scribbled notes.