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Today is RSS Awareness Day, you can find out more about it by clicking on that link.
It is estimated that just over 5% of Internet users subscribe to RSS feeds. In today’s content rich world and dynamic websites, that is abysmal. Most users simply do not know how RSS feeds can make their online life easier, they’ve never used a feed reader and wouldn’t know where to start.
As bloggers, we want to maximise our RSS subscribers to ensure our message continues to be read by those interested in what we have to offer… it is in all of our interests to raise the awareness of technology such as RSS so that we can maximise our readerships and deliver our content in a way that is easier for our readers to use. A win-win situation for everyone.
If you’re not sold on the idea of RSS yourself, or would just like to find out more, then this video ‘RSS in Plain English‘ is one of the best ways you can learn about it:
Take the time to write about it on your blog, spread the word and encourage your readers to find out more about RSS.
If you haven’t subscribed to my site yet, here’s my RSS Feed link.
I recommend Google Reader or one of the NewsGator products for your feed reading needs.
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Good, but not as good as naked CSS day (when people remove their CSS). However, I find a big problem with RSS is that different people use different xml names and namespaces. I thought the purposes of RSS was to be uniform.
There are different standards for RSS, and yeah, a wide variety in both type and namesapces are available - which can make things difficult if the developer isn’t careful. But the majority of RSS feeds out there are compatible with the majority of RSS feed readers - if you’re using popular blogging software that automatically creates the RSS feeds for you, then there’s nothing to worry about.
The point of RSS awareness day is to increase the exposure of RSS to the general Internet public. There are many advantages to both content publishers and consumers to be using RSS. As a publisher, being able to immediately push information to interested readers instead of relying on them to remember to check the website for updates is fantastic… as a consumer, I couldn’t live without my RSS Reader - I currently subscribe to 91 feeds (small amount for some people). there’s no way I could keep up with that many websites if I needed to check manually.