We’ve only just begun

Steve Matthews of Vancouver Law Librarian Blog has produced a list of Top 10 Uses for RSS in Law Firms. These are all good examples of what RSS can be used for. But my contention is there is no Top 10; it’s horses for courses, and there are an awful lot of courses. RSS is a standard publishing format for delivering latest items from any resource database: date, link, title, description … that’s about it; simple and effective; use it for what you will. Because feeds are delivered in a standard format, third parties can provide countless ways in which they can be consumed: read them, aggregate them, search them, acquire them, republish them. RSS will take over as the preferred means of consuming all those blog home pages, what’s new pages, lists of recent articles, latest additions to x, latest jobs, latest products that fit your enquiry and so on; and feeds will be repurposed and republished …

2 thoughts on “We’ve only just begun

  1. On reflection, you’re absolutely right to focus on a Top 10. To say feeds are good for anything, as I’ve done, is perhaps not very helpful to those new to RSS.

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