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Marketing Begins At Home
Social Media and Public Relations Ideas and Insights From David Parmet
Robert Scoble’s diatribe on RSS and marketing sites has been making the rounds of the marcom blogsphere. I don’t have to add that he’s right - any marketing effort that doesn’t incorporate RSS is just … well… dumb. And a waste.
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4 years ago
The problem with getting RSS in use by non-techies is that you either have to disguise it so that they don't know they are using RSS (the name doesn't help either), or you have to solve the subscription problem. Currently it is just too fiddly to subscribe to a new blog..
1. Why do I get gobbledigook when I click on the Orange XML button.
2. What *is* that orange XML button, and why do I care to know what XML is.
3. RSS 2? 1.1? Atom? Eh? Which do I choose? Why?
4. Cut and paste? What? To where?
This wouldn't be too bad but nobody seems to be making any effort to describe a technology wide spec for doing this, some people use feed:// which is not supported everywhere, some people use Browser extensions.
Until the aggregator developers get together and decide (possibly with the help of browser vendors) reading blogs is going to stay by geeks for geeks.
4 years ago