Re: [syndication] Evangelizing RSS

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

Jeff, what is RSS?

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Barr" <jeff@vertexdev.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 5:46 AM
Subject: RE: [syndication] Evangelizing RSS


> Julian says,
>
> > ISTM that an RSS FAQ aimed at content providers, with a clear
> > explanation of why and how they should produce an RSS file would be a
> > *good thing*[1]. It ought to present a clear business case as well as
> > the developer detail. All the explanations I've seen so far are squarely
> > aimed at programmers and don't make any sort of business case.
>
> Definitely! I was thinking about evangelizing syndication last night while
> walking past the offices of "Deseret News" in Salt Lake City (I'm here for
> the day). We need a nice FAQ-like document, one that we control, which
makes
> the business case first, and then proceeds to the details. This should be
a
> one or two pager.
>
> The business case part should be pretty simple:
>
> Q: Why should I syndicate my site's headlines.
>
> A: Because an investment of just a few hours of development time will
>    bring your site's headlines to the world in such a way that your
>    site will get more traffic. There will be little, if any, continued
>    investment.
>
> > [1]I know the response is "well write one then", but I'm a little busy
> > right now... Perhaps a group effort?
>
> We need a coordinator that can paste finished results into a master
> document (it should be a single document for easy printing). And we
> need an outline. The rest is easy. I'm in the "little busy" boat with
> Julian. I can contribute, but I cannot coordinate right now.
>
> Jeff;
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Bond [mailto:julian@netmarketseurope.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 1:47 AM
> To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [syndication] Evangelizing RSS
>
>
> I have just had this conversation with a content provider.
>
> >On Tuesday, May 08, 2001 10:08 AM, Julian Bond wrote:
> >| Do you produce an RSS file for syndication of headlines?
> >| If you do, where is it?
> >| If you don't, why not?
> >| If you don't know what it is, look here http://www.blogspace.com/rss/
> >Please excuse my ignorance.  I checked the site, distinct concise reasons
> >for why we should be offering RSS docs were not easily forthcoming and I
> >ran out of time.  Please send me a link to a dummies guide, I am
interested
> >but don't have time to trawl through RSS history looking for explanations
> >of why RSS should prevail.
>
> Here's another one from a site that outsources it's web development. I
> think I hit the outsourcing company not the owners.
> >No one has ever offered us money to produce one.
>
> ISTM that an RSS FAQ aimed at content providers, with a clear
> explanation of why and how they should produce an RSS file would be a
> *good thing*[1]. It ought to present a clear business case as well as
> the developer detail. All the explanations I've seen so far are squarely
> aimed at programmers and don't make any sort of business case.
>
> This particular guy is the webmaster for one of the titles at EMAP ("400
> titles"). I'm still hopeful that I can convince him.
>
> [1]I know the response is "well write one then", but I'm a little busy
> right now... Perhaps a group effort?
>
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