Dan Gillmor has a new piece on RSS, with several key points. RSS is past the initial stage of development and exploration, and is now racing ahead extensively to reshape our digital experience. One subtle point, about RSS vs spam:
One of the most promising arenas for RSS is in lightening the load of e-mail, which spammers -- and overly restrictive spam-filtering software -- have all but wrecked.Just ask Chris Pirillo, who built a business on e-mail newsletters. He's renounced e-mail as his preferred medium, and says RSS is the way to go.
"RSS is evolving as a replacement for e-mail publishing and marketing," he says. "RSS suddenly makes the Internet work the way it should. Instead of you searching for everything, the Internet comes to you on your terms."
updated: About that reshaping the digital experience: RSS feeds, combined with readers, cut across the now-traditional internet divisions. If I'm reading content in RSS which used to reach me via email, Web pages, and e-commerce, then it's a qualitatively shift. For example, Blogstreet and Bloglines use email and Web browsers, respectively, to enable RSS reading. RSS is emerging as a separate domain in cyberspace.
(via Scripting)
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