Re: [syndication] The constraint to widespread adoption of syndication

[Brent Simmons <brent@ranchero.com>]

On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 03:03  PM, Morbus Iff wrote:

> > I've been using "Web news reader" and "RSS Web news reader." It's not
> > perfect, but I think it's not bad, either. It immediately 
> > distinguishes
> > it from a Usenet newsreader. And even if you don't know what a
> > newsreader is, you still at least get the idea that it's some kind of
> > application that reads news from the Web.
>
> I try not to use the term "RSS" at all, for some the same reason I 
> don't
> say "visit amazon.com's HTML pages". But then again, my current 
> description
> of AmphetaDesk ("a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news
> aggregator") doesn't earn bonus points for being readily understandable
> ("what's syndication?" "what's an aggregator?").

I do use the term RSS, because there are lots of people who know what 
RSS is, and I want to make it explicit to them that it's an RSS reader. 
(These people are in the minority, of course, but there are lots of 
them anyway.)

-Brent