RSS Awareness Day

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.

Spam 30th Anniversary

Happy 30th anniversary, spam. From unsolicited bulk emails to site hack epidemics, you’ll be with us in some form or another as long as lazy cheapskate marketers add valueless noise to the global conversation.

(Via Darren Rowse.)