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The Popularity of RSS

Learning Circuits has a great survey article on RSS and its appeal by Stephen Downes.

If you want a preview of what we'll be talking about at the ACE conference, this is a good guide:

The major attraction of RSS for Web developers is its simplicity. (In fact, RSS is often known by an alternative name, Really Simple Syndication). An RSS file can be created from scratch using nothing more than a simple text editor and sample file as a template, posted to a Web server as though it were a Webpage, and retrieved and read by a wide variety of applications. Additionally, and this probably accounts for its recent burst of popularity, numerous content management tools now create RSS files automatically and applications called headline readers enable users to view the contents.

Posted by dcoates at June 8, 2004 02:44 PM