In spite of the hype, RSS still bleeding edge.
[ Posted by Dan on October 21, 2002 | 1 Comments ]

This is purely anecdotal evidence, but it's worth spewing on a blog. I mentioned to my pretty well dialed-in older brother that XML/RSS requests on this site are generally outpacing shtml requests, and he had no clue what the hell I was talking about. I explained RSS to him and he still thought my statement was meaning less. finally I said...

Remember when the web was getting really big? Well, this is sort of like that, but earlier in the process, and excluding graphics on purpose.

And it still didn't really mean much to him. I can hardly blame him too, because what really matters to most people on the net these days is the browser. It's the blog/web-addicts who find value in aggregating RSS feeds.

5 years ago I asked myself how the business community would figure out how to use the web in commercial applications. Today I ask myself the same thing about RSS and the applications that aggregate it.

[ps, it's really busy time for me right now and blog entries might be a bit slow for a while]

 

		I have to second your annecdote. I had tried an RSS aggregator before (on windows) and I thought it was a waste of time. Then I used NetNewsWire on my Mac and fell in love. I was sure NNW was the RSS 'Killer App', but when I excitedly show it to people they don't get why I think it is so cool. I am very curious to see where RSS goes from here. -Posted by josh on October 21, 2002 04:56 PM

Comment posting has been turned off because I don't have enough time and will to deal with the constant comment spamming. I'm very sorry and will fix this sometime soon (soon = before 2004 ends).