Re: The constraint to widespread adoption of syndication
Brent Simmons <brent-EIMYq/FlFIZWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
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On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 03:03 PM, Morbus Iff wrote:
>> I've been using "Web news reader" and "RSS Web news reader." It's not
>> perfect, but I think it's not bad, either. It immediately
>> distinguishes
>> it from a Usenet newsreader. And even if you don't know what a
>> newsreader is, you still at least get the idea that it's some kind of
>> application that reads news from the Web.
>
> I try not to use the term "RSS" at all, for some the same reason I
> don't
> say "visit amazon.com's HTML pages". But then again, my current
> description
> of AmphetaDesk ("a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news
> aggregator") doesn't earn bonus points for being readily understandable
> ("what's syndication?" "what's an aggregator?").
I do use the term RSS, because there are lots of people who know what
RSS is, and I want to make it explicit to them that it's an RSS reader.
(These people are in the minority, of course, but there are lots of
them anyway.)
-Brent
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