RSS Awareness Day
Tags: RSS
When college girls ask me to explain RSS, I tell them it’s like the friend updates on their social networks — but for the whole Internet. RSS has so fundamentally liberated content from form, so efficiently freed information from silos, so powerfully shifted attention control from publishers to readers, that it deserves to have its own special day. In fact, it does: RSS Awarness Day.
Interesting that RSS Awareness Day is so near the anniversary date of spam. The former is a cure for the latter.
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An awareness campaign should have been “neutral”, instead of calling it “RSS Awareness Day”, should be “Feed/Syndication Awareness Day”.
You get more support and attention with that (if their objective is about Feed/Syndication to REALLY spread to the rest of the Web users).
But since the idea behind is more political (read: RSS vs Atom), it was called as such, even calling the neutral “Feed Icon” as an “RSS Icon”.
Atom 1.0 is ‘a’ and ‘the’ standard. Why fight for the past when we can embrace the future?
Anyway, I would have supported their awareness campaign if it was [1] Neutral; or better yet [2] Atom Awareness Day. :p
Seriously, they should have stayed neutral, more beneficial for everyone.
freedom and neutrality
On the left, welcome the past, the norm – RSS
On the right, Atom, web standard, the future.