Jessica and the Chronicle of Higher Education

February 10th, 2004

Jessica links to an article form the Chronicle of Higher Education on RSS. She dispels many of the misconceptions about RSS that are in the article. While author did do his homework on RSS, I’m afraid he misconstrued a lot of points that Jessica corrected. So, I’d read her comments after reading the article.

One passing thought: In our talks about RSS, Jenny and I have a slide that proposes positive aspects of syndication (yes, Walt, there is a “negatives” slide too) and one of our points is that it works for sites that update often as well as those that don’t update often. Why? Because I don’t have to waste my time going to that site every day. I know that my aggregator is looking at it. My point is, let your aggregator work for you. You shouldn’t have to work for your aggregator.

And thanks Jessica for her comments on the article…

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