“Webfeed,” the nontechnical nickname that describes the general concept behind both RSS- and Atom-format feeds, and winner of the CONTENTIOUS RSS Nickname Contest, continues to appear in more and more places online.
On May 18 I mentioned the first few appearances of “webfeed” online. Here are several more recent occurrences…
- Various contributors to the German weblog/online seminar Media Pedagogy continue to say “webfeed” on a regular basis.
- Seblogging (by Sebastian Fielder):
- June 29: Safari RSS Knows News. “Good to see that Webfeeds and RSS finally get the attention they deserve.”
- June 15: Keynote at ICL2004. “I am invited to give a keynote speech at the International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL) 2004. ICL2004 will be held from 29 Sept. to 01 Oct. 2004 in Villach, Austria. The tentative title of my speech is ‘Weblogs, Wikis, and Webfeeds – are we learning to open-source learning?’”
My First Day at Webfeed School. ” Today I decided to get up to speed on webfeeds. I have a blog now. I need to know these things.”
- June 28, Apple’s RSS Embrace Could Bolster Adoption. “I’d really hate for webfeeds to be hijacked by MS. “
- June 14, The RSS Paradox. “Want to watch CSI at 7 instead of 9? Have your PVR[personal video recorder] record it along with a special interview you found listed on your CSI webfeed.”
- June 10, Ed Brill – E-mail vs. RSS (Webfeeds)
- June 25: Playing it safe – oh dear. “We took them through the ways in which weblogs, wikis and webfeeds (although not once using that terminology, in fear of glazed expressions appearing) could improve their particular problems.”
- June 11, How Do You Use RSS (Webfeeds)? (Robert Scoble linked to this.)
- June 21, Sebastien Paquet’s booksmarks: “Feedburner transforms, beautifies, and converts webfeeds.”
- Seb’s Open Research weblog: June 16, Webfeeds are opt-in authenticated email. June 4, Into the Fray. “…If you want to watch just one place, make that Stephen Downes’ continuing coverage page (get a webfeed here).”
- June 17: Insert quip about reverse-engineering USENET here: “…Blogs and webfeeds rely entirely on HTTP, that great firewall exception.”
- May 31: RSS meme gets a weblog. “…I’m thinking of saying webfeeds to people and wondering why any normal person would care if Atom or RSS were or were not offered in equal measure by some service…”
Intriguing, isn’t it? Once again, we’ll see how this plays out in the long run…
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