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Practical RSS
John Mahoney
CTO / co-founder of Instant Information
RSS is nothing more than a specific application of XML applied to the information distribution problem. Here’s an excellent short explanation of it. Everyone may benefit from. RSS could be the way out of the morass of email we all deal with every day. Blogs, many websites, wikis, most forums can all produce an rss feed.
Envision instead of sending an milti-meg email full of attachments, that absorbs resources galore all over, one can create an entry that gets shared automagically with everyone who wants it. RSS is a pull technology. Your reader PULLS the content your interested in as opposed to you having to go get it. You can control it.
It turns the information model upside down from the way we think about it now.
Instead of one email with a bunch of carbon copies, you can “subscribe” to sources. on the intranet and internet, who will feed you.
I’ve been “doing” RSS as both a publisher and a consumer for a while now and would be happy to show you how it can work for you.
If someone can’t live outside of Microsoft LookOut, there is a freeware product called RSSPOPPER that will make an rss feed look like email folder to your LookOut. ;-) Wouldn’t want anyone to go into withdrawal.
If you are on email subscription lists, there are ways to turn them into rss feeds as well.
I’d love to “consult” with anyone who thinks I can help.
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