Talk to any audience about social media and you are bound to be asked about RSS. RSS is crucial to the expansion of social media - but for a simple concept it is hard to explain. David Phillips spotted this excellent post on Back in Skinny Jeans: it is titled How to explain RSS the Oprah way...
Here's the first graphic - now read the article....
As others have said, the sooner someone comes up with a name for RSS that doesn't exude 'geek' from every blocked up pore, the easier to will be for casual users to really tap into the benefits of blogs ...
I'm happy with Microsoft's offering of Feeds.
Posted by: Stuart Bruce - Wolfstar | September 23, 2006 at 09:49 AM
Maybe... At least it is not an acronym. The main thing is that it will be a key part of IE7 and as long as it is easy to use I don't suppose the name matters so much. Liked your post on Comments, by the way (http://www.stuartbruce.biz/2006/09/the_tetchy_cham.html#trackback); I hope it is well read.
Posted by: Philip Young | September 23, 2006 at 10:51 AM