RSS is Bigger Than Jesus
In between dodging dozens of these damned Sobig bounces every other minute, both Scott and I have announced that we're working on a tutorial for RSS. It's just “too damn confusing” for the average person to welcome onto their desktop, so we're aiming to demystify the funkadelic Malkovich flavor of super simple syndication. I know that Nick is already refining a better feature set for FeedDemon 2.0, and I'm hoping that Greg will start listening to my incessant feedback for improving NewsGator (my current choice for a news aggregator). When all is said and done, we want to make this stuff easier for Joe and Judy Consumer to understand.
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17 Comments
Anonymous
August 20th, 2003
at 4:01am
I am really looking forward to this. I have expressed to Chris how I felt that my clients were being left behind and that RSS can be brought to the masses.
Good job Chris!
Anonymous
August 20th, 2003
at 6:22am
Haha, Chris you are a funny guy. ” RSS is bigger than Jesus.” Now if i could only figure out how to add the comments I have on each entry to my rss feeds. HMM…
Anonymous
August 20th, 2003
at 7:35am
Wasn't claiming they were bigger than Jesus the beginning of the end for the Beatles??
Anonymous
August 20th, 2003
at 8:22am
Chris, believe me, I'm listening. :-)
Anonymous
August 20th, 2003
at 8:30am
Me going to school again!! Where can I sign up?
Anonymous
August 20th, 2003
at 11:51am
I'll admit it… I tried to get into the RSS stuff and found it a bit confusing. I will definetly be checking any the tut's.
Anonymous
August 20th, 2003
at 1:55pm
Feel free to cc: me on that feedback too. We built MyWireService (http://www.mywireservice.com) as entry-level web-based RSS aggregator. Just for consideration of your book, we use the one page model/custom newspaper metaphor (rather than 3 pane or email) which we think is an easier for beginners. We also categorize our feeds and offer “news packages” so it is easy to get started. And like another web-based aggregators (e.g. Bloglines) we don't have any cognitive dissonance between having links opening in another app. i.e. you are already in your web browser…
Looking forward to the book.
Anonymous
August 20th, 2003
at 2:31pm
Yeah they are… also run away from Comcast… they continue to raise their prices through the roof… run forest run..
http://crimsonlight.com
Anonymous
August 20th, 2003
at 5:49pm
RSS is almost bigger THAN Jesus…How come blogger is so greedy at it and wont provide it for free? Looks like I might have to move my blog to tripod.com since they provide more options right now…
Anonymous
August 20th, 2003
at 6:43pm
Well, you have steered me clear.. :)
Anonymous
August 20th, 2003
at 7:34pm
Chris,
You are so dang smart…..and cute too. (was Jesus cute…is that blasphemous?)
Why is it taking so long for me to become a geek?
I guess I'll have to go over to the chatboard to learn and get more info.
Anonymous
August 20th, 2003
at 8:02pm
Well first of all why do you have to bring Jesus into this? Is there no other way to attract attention?
And aren't you a nice guy, I AM SURE YOU WILL CHARGE FOR YOUR TUTORIAL TOO.
I am sick of your seemingly casual happy go lucky attitute, yet you are just about the greediest web site I have ever seen, you charge for every advice.
Anonymous
August 21st, 2003
at 8:33pm
Hmm… I take it you decided to never use the info I wrote for ScriptyGoddess after all. Well, if you should decide that you want to – feel free to share it!
Anonymous
August 23rd, 2003
at 6:32pm
I thought it was Rss is bigger than than the BEATLES!
Anonymous
August 26th, 2003
at 7:53pm
I searched the web over and found a neat little aggregater called “Feedreader”. It is very simple to use and takes up little space. Plus it is free
Anonymous
September 3rd, 2003
at 10:20pm
While you're working on it, this is a good start:
(http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml)
Anonymous
September 3rd, 2003
at 10:22pm
Well, it works in the browser.