Re: Evangelizing RSS

[Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com>]

Julian Bond writes:
> What's in it for the traditional media outlets to publish a public
> RSS feed?

I'm curious about this too. Discussion with a few people has indicated
that much of the reasons for people liking RSS is that it lets us
bypass the horrible excuses for design that the major publications
keep trying to foist off on us.

Much of my pessimism about a semantic web comes from my believe that a
good portion of the reason for design as it's generally practiced is
introducing revenue producing advertising and obscuring lack of
content.

For that reason, I'd be surprised if the traditional media outlets
really want to enable their users to bypass their front pages.

Dan