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Steve Rubel, whom I had a chance to meet this week and really enjoyed my time(Jeremiah’s write up), has blogged about wanting to have an RSS appreciation day. The only problem is that maybe it shouldn’t be an “RSS” day, maybe it should be a “feed” day. What are we appreciating here? I think [...]

Niall Kennedy wrote a nice piece today about the adoption rates of certain technologies and how many times surveys don’t get it right. To use some of Niall’s words,
It makes much more sense to focus on current uses of the technology to determine the pervasiveness of new ideas.
I wrote earlier today about the adoption rate [...]

Rebecca Lieb of Clickz wrote an article today entitled, “RSS Means Change Your E-Mail Opt-In Model”
In the article Rebecca describes some positives of RSS…..
Now, thanks to the miracle of RSS, a bunch of early adopters (myself included) are migrating their e-mail subscriptions to their RSS readers
But then she goes on to talk about how RSS [...]

I thought this was already being done but I guess this is the first news of it. It is a good idea and a great way for an agency to have easy control over daily messaging. Just another efficent use of feed syndication.
NEW YORK Cnet Networks has started running banner ads embedded with Really Simple [...]

I have taken down the redirected feedburner feed. If you are subscribed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/jamesgrossetc it should be redirected(update: it appears that is working, those guys are good) to the original source feed http://www.jamesgross.com/?feed=rss2. If you want to do it manually you can just unsubscribe to the feed and resubscribe to http://www.jamesgross.com/?feed=rss2. Thanks for your help [...]

Feeds are really a benefit and should be used by everyone. Not just for geeks and news junkies, they also serve the great purpose of saving us all a lot of time. Much like email is faster than postal mail, XML (format feed syndication is based on) can do things that HTML(standard [...]