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RSS Rant

I have noticed a huge trend not only in websites moving away from RSS to Twitter and Facebook, but removing it completely! This is NOT a good move for people who provide content to stay in touch with consumers. RSS is a way to consume a LOT of information very quickly, and store it in nice categories if you miss it. I can catch up with a small blog’s output at the end of the week and, if I so choose, read every article easily in one sitting.

Small blogs cut their own throat by taking away the RSS capability. Social media outlets are information colanders: 5% of your followers will see anything you post, and that is probably only within 20 minutes of posting. That is the way it is, and it is going to only get worse. Apart from email lists, RSS is the best way you can collect stuff across the internet to read quickly, and I am so irritated when that choice is taken from me.


http://feliciaday.com/blog/rss-rant

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Upcoming: Minimal Blogging Tool
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American software developer Dave Winer announced that he is working on a simple blogging tool that keeps an archival copy of your content on your servers, but pushes it out onto whatever other publishing platform you choose. "The important thing is that you and your ideas live outside the silo and are ported into it at your pleasure," Winer wrote. "You never have to worry about getting your stuff out of the silo because it never lived in there in the first place."

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blogging_forefather_seeks_to_re-invent_blogging_ag.php
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