Costa Mesa tries RSS for news
March 8th, 2004Before reading the entire article about the city of Costa Mesa trying out RSS, printed in FCW, I jumped over to the site to check out the feeds. I had a hard time finding them (even autodiscovery failed) so I jumped back into the article and read this:
“The RSS feed is being used to publish only selected items for now, Bui said, since it’s still very much an experimental process for getting information out to people. The problem, he said, is that Costa Mesa has no means to publicize the new technology and educate people on how to use it. E-mail subscribers are being told about it, Bui said, but nothing is being done to educate the public at large.”
While I understand the need to be cautious with RSS (newbies have the right to be wary, it’s our job to teach them not to), why not just provide the feed to users so they can get some feedback? Also, I’d like to know if the e-mail subscribers were provided with the feeds, which would be a step in the right direction.