Bob Stepno's Red Liner

That question from a writers’ group e-mail list was just what I needed
to inspire me to try explaining RSS syndication to newcomers to the
blogging world.

This will seem terribly over-simplified to Berkman folks, but I came up with three main issues:

• delivery (you go to blogs; RSS feeds come to you)
• contents (RSS feeds can be headlines, summaries or more)
• reading tools (desktop and Web-based aggregators)

The essay-page
that grew out of my e-mail reply probably skates onto its thinnest ice
in the section headed “More technical info and abbreviations than you
need…”

I welcome corrections and suggestions, either as comments or e-mail.
Feel free to dope-slap me and just say, “Why didn’t you send them
here?” (Adding the address of a page that does the job better.) I’m a
glutton for punishment.

‘What’s the difference between blogs and RSS?’ …

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