More From You on RSS

• Robin Hamman
• 9 Mar 07, 03:04 PM

No sooner had we started talking about using RSS than we spotted, in there amongst our newly subscribed feeds, some posts you've recently made about RSS. It nearly made us exclaim "Snap!" ;-)

Craig McGinty, a freelance journalist turned blogger, has tracked down some good background information about RSS.

In How to get RSS Right on Modern Life is Rubbish, Stuart Brown provides "5 tips to help get subscribers, keep subscribers" including 1) offer full feeds rather than excerpts and 2) avoid amendments to feed items once they're posted. You'll have to click through to see the other three tips. Stuart's also recently done an interesting (well, we like it) analysis of RSS subscriptions to the websites of major newspapers and news organisations in the UK, including the BBC.

Still no idea what we're on about? Don't worry, you aren't alone. Today I spotted this video on YouTube showing the results when people on the streets of Sutton, apparently the most average town in England, were asked "what's RSS?":