The Lee Feever video was pretty cool and interesting. It makes it simple and easy to understand. It is also very pleasing and I think it could be very appealing to a large audience. It's a good informative way of doing it. His recap is also a great as it informs the viewer of the steps to take. His drawing the house is neat and the other images also make the video really to the point and informative. It breaks it down to something really simple, which it should be as RSS is not really complicated.
The Cohen article is also very interesting, and the practicality that he brings into it is great. However, I do find some of his information a bit hard to read over at least at a first glance, when he gets into “default query URLs”, it is not that easy to read, and could have maybe been written in a different way which could have been clearer. Also, the article seemed a bit dated when I finished it, then I scrolled to the top and realized it had been written in 2002, which made some sense.
The article from “Content Publishers and Webmasters” uses a lot more geek talk and is intended for a mature audience, more techy or for people doing coding. The information is good, but I would not suggest this article to just anyone, as the content could be easily overwhelming. However, if someone really wanted to know the roots of things, it might be a good place to start.
The Robin Good article offers a lot of good information with his list of 17 positive aspects, and 11 possible problems and limitations. He points out a lot of good information and things to consider. His title, which infers to email vs RSS, Good makes an interesting case around this topic. He brings out a good point in ”Electronic inter-personal and business exchanges will still largely utilize traditional email”. This point is very true as too much information is private, and meant only to be seen by some people, not everyone. There are differences between RSS and email and Good presents a good case on their difference and that they won't ever beat each other over for one to win the race as they seem to serve two different purposes.
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Hi,
Robin Good does present some interesting arguments about email vs. RSS, but I agree with you, I think it's here to stay.
I also liked your comments about the cases, how neat is to have RSS for jobs? I hope more libraries (here in Canada) will adapt that. Some of the other libraries seemed to be attaching an RSS feed to just about anything, which I do not support. What do you think?
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