As we predicted, the time is ticking on the young, naive open-ness of RSS; witness the gathering vultures circling overhead. Greed, chasing of a dollar, and even the smallest crack are an open invitation for the party-crashers who will usurp everything that is open and collaborative just for a few shiny pennies.

RSS: It’s Not Just for Bloggers Anymore

Yup, the viagra pushers are game too.

Is Ad-Supported RSS the Next Big Thing?

Next biggest things since pop-up porno? portals? push-technology?

RSS Is The New News “RSS (alternatively Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is the new way sites and blogs distribute content. You probably already know this. But here’s something you may not know: How to make money in RSS software.”

How virtuous, what an epitaph that would make.

Buy & Sell RSS Ads Place your ad in RSS feeds throughout the web. Reach users who read content in RSS aggregators.

What not just spit in their cereal bowl? Kick sand in their face?

Monetize your RSS feed. Maintain total control over the ads placed in your feed. Expose all of your content via premium RSS feeds.

Monetize this, eh?

Circling, circling, circling… here come the vultures.

More Vultures…

According to Amy Gahran, RSS needs a better name. These are suggestions for a new colloquial name for RSS, since acronyms are inherently geeky and tend to alienate nontechnical people. The intention of this contest is to come up with a common-usage term that will help make RSS more accessible to a mass audience – […]

These winters in Arizona are tough. Some days the temperature drops into the mid 60s. Likewise was my vain attempt today to tune into the RSS Winterfest. Every attempt use the link provided by the automatic email registration message, took me to a promising entry lobby, but every click of “Launch Presentation” resulted in a […]

I am curious to “be” at the January 21-22 online conference, RSS Winterfest. Most conferences, in person or online, I generally approach with low expectations– mainly out of frustration over the years that the only format for professional communication that seems to be used is the 50 minute lecture to a passive audience. I have […]

Dave‘s got an interesting round-up at the OPML corral, “Share your OMPL”.. Yikes, another acronym! If you dig a bit deeper it comes up as Outline Processer Markup Language , now that is much more clear! Huh? Think of of it as a way to use XML to represent outline forms of content, which if […]