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What we talk about when we talk about RSS

Relevant to my interests. What we talk about when we talk about RSS from inessential by Brent Simmons.

FDA has RSS feed for food recalls

I am loving this. I just went to check on the pistachio recall. I was checking out a link to FDA recall notices when I found this: http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/rssRecalls.xml I’m kind of stoked on that – a perfect utilization of news feed technology. Now if we could just get the FDA to use Twitterfeed to pushContinue reading “FDA has RSS feed for food recalls”

Recovery.gov has an RSS Feed!

This technology + transparency concept has so much potential – http://www.recovery.gov has an RSS feed!

RSS, Web 2.0 and the Future Part II

This is a continuation of a post from 2009-02-10. While the post-IPO price of Google shares was still inflating the company engaged in a dot com buying spree perhaps only previously rivaled by giants like Yahoo! and IAC. They shopped for small groups serving this niche and consolidating Google’s control in this proto-industry before anyContinue reading “RSS, Web 2.0 and the Future Part II”

RSS, Web 2.0 and the Future Part I

My dad is nursing an interest in blogging and just asked me a question about how blog posts work with e-mail. It was a “yes or no” kind of question. As is my style, I responded with the following treatise, which, to avoid ennui, I’ve broken into two parts. Does it make it easy forContinue reading “RSS, Web 2.0 and the Future Part I”