POYNTER -- Steve Rubel spent last week looking only at his blogs. He gave up his regular consumption of news media. He learned what was going on in the world solely by checking weblogs. He finished the experiment and took a series of tests. He didn't do well on the tests but his experiment raises another important point--why not measure the effectiveness of an "RSS-only news" flow?
CADENHEAD -- Rogers Cadenhead is upgrading his newsfeeds to RSS 2.0 "so the other syndication format evangelists won't make fun of me."
SIX APART -- Movable Type worked as the backbone for 29 student blogs during the 2003-04 academic year. Many of the same Perl scripts served 40 other students in a Typepad incarnation. If I had used commercial Web Based Training assets, I would have committed to more than $40,000 of subscription fees.
KILKENNY -- I have a page in one of my A5 journals that traces an interview by Evan Williams. Ev discounts the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) standard and suggests it's time to move beyond it. I wonder if he feels any obligation to maintain the interest of the common man--those who find RSS working behind their favourite new sites or the thousands of bloggers pulling down microcontent across the world.
