Explain RSS in 10 words or less to someone who reads news online (and a possibly few blogs although they may not necessarily know them as “blogs”), but doesn’t know what a newsreader or aggregator is.
That's hard. How about:
"Syndication system that pulls content you choose from the Web."
Get the latest site updates without visiting the webpage.
Keep track of site updates in one convenient place.
Websites publish updates in a standard format; you can subscribe.
Or: "Read about money, airplanes, heroes, and microwave ovens, more conveniently."
Standardized internet news format readable by personalizable news reading software
Get website updates right in your browser; works like email.
Makes life easier, but not really.
Share and enjoy news updates from all over the world.
Share and enjoy news updates from all over the world.
Get news automatically instead of visiting sites manually.
...or...
News comes to you. You don't have to gather it.
Really Simple Syndication makes the internet fun again. (hoo ray)
The Fastest Way To Waste An Enormous Amount Of Time
a format for delivering summaries of regularly changing web content
or What is RSS?
In 10 words ?
That is what you need to get the hottest news.
;)
Freebasing for Web junkies.
If the WSJ redesigned the WWW, it'd look like RSS
Another cool thing to make stupid people mad.
Get breaking headline alerts without giving out your email address.
Surpassed by Atom.
Automatically generated updates list in an standard, machine-readeable format. Yes.
Standardized list of machine readable information designed for news distribution.
Ecstasy for information junkies that can't have enough of it.
A list of everything new online since you last looked.
RSS: a standardized format for broadcasting and sharing web journal data
Remember Pointcast? Kinda like that, only actually useful.
getting flexible|desired news|information update notification without giving away any private data (i.e. email address)
Your favorite sites' content delivered, without most formatting, on demand.
way for website owners to inform you of new content (11 words?
Does *not* resemble PointCast in *any* way!
forget email subscriptions - read the headlines without visiting every site
Another iteration of the customizable Web portal, yet without ads.
Annoyance; undermines my ability to know who read my site.
;)
An easy way to keep up with your favorite weblogs.
Does *not* resemble PointCast in *any* way!
Does too!
Seriously, throw aside the interface aspects, and to me the similarities are definitely there. Subscribe to various information sources, have the information automatically fed to you in the background, and view it at your leisure. It's a classic push model, except you're in much more control of what's getting pushed to you.
What's with all these "in 10 words or less" excercises?
Are you guys getting bored?
Interesting to how RSS needs to be defined, compared to Atom having a site that's easy to understand...
http://atomenabled.org/
"List of items."
I say "items" because RSS can be used for more than just news.
In February, I gave a presentation about RSS to Marketing and Communications staff at my company. The audience was responsive to seeing real-world examples of RSS in use.
What you want, when you want, how you want it.
Allows you to create your own virtual newspaper.
Atom simplifies reading and writing on the Internet.
Polling metadata feeds automatically is easier than revisiting web sites.
Speed Reading the net.
Sends news you want to you, no email, no spam.