Comments on: RSS Contest Deadline Extended http://www.contentious.com/2004/01/21/rss-contest-deadline-extended/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:43:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: mike slone http://www.contentious.com/2004/01/21/rss-contest-deadline-extended/#comment-169 mike slone Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://contentious.com/archives/2004/01/21/rss-contest-deadline-extended#comment-169 I came across a good article that supports your hunt for a new name for RSS. Must-have features RSS needs before becoming mainstream, and 1 nice-to-have http://www.dylangreene.com/blog.asp?blogID=364 #4. New Name. The name for the RSS file format doesn't matter, just like HTML doesn't matter. In general we call them "Web pages" not "HTML pages". RSS needs a word like "Web" that can be commonly associated with the purpose of having RSS files. ("MP3" worked because there was free music involved.) Subscribing/Subscription is a common word that would works except most users tightly associate it with receiving newsletters and eventually spam mail. We need a new word, like TiVo and Google (thanks K.G. Schneider ). I came across a good article that supports your hunt for a new name for RSS.

Must-have features RSS needs before becoming mainstream, and 1 nice-to-have
http://www.dylangreene.com/blog.asp?blogID=364

#4. New Name. The name for the RSS file format doesn’t matter, just like HTML doesn’t matter. In general we call them “Web pages” not “HTML pages”. RSS needs a word like “Web” that can be commonly associated with the purpose of having RSS files. (”MP3″ worked because there was free music involved.) Subscribing/Subscription is a common word that would works except most users tightly associate it with receiving newsletters and eventually spam mail. We need a new word, like TiVo and Google (thanks K.G. Schneider ).

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