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RSS: Greyhound Bus? Or great big chopper?

November 22nd, 2003 · No Comments

For a lot of you veterans this RSS stuff is old hat–not to me! About six months ago I clicked my first XML button, and figured I’d just done something *bad* to my browser…

Check out these two different visions from two different blog friends:

Scott Johnson of Feedster, in a Waffle Iron interview.

“Think of blogs as your friends. No one really wants to travel to see their friends — not when you have a lot of them. What you want is them to come to you. And that’s what RSS does — it lets your friends (blogs you read) come to you.”

Lisa Williams at Cadence90:

“Western food .. involved a different division of labor between the cook and the eater — western cooks might put a steak on the plate, but a Chinese cook would be more likely to slice the steak into bite-size pieces easy to handle with chopsticks.

In a similar way, development of RSS is changing the division of labor between the author of web content and the reader of web content. Right now, the author is responsible for almost everything including the visual layout of the page. In an RSS world, the reader has much more control…”


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