Comments on: Publish Your News by Webfeed (Online Media Outreach, Part 8) http://www.contentious.com/2004/11/30/publish-your-news-by-webfeed-online-media-outreach-part-8/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:40:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: bicycemark http://www.contentious.com/2004/11/30/publish-your-news-by-webfeed-online-media-outreach-part-8/#comment-2279 bicycemark Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:27:04 +0000 #comment-2279 Speaking as a pretend journalist... the trouble is so many of us are technoslow. I've worked for columnists in NYC that get their interns to check their email because they're tech-fearful. Explaining RSS would be great, as soon as we get them into email. From an organization standpoint I'm still waiting for media orgs to realize that mass-emails are an ancient and counter productive idea. You offend and alienate more then you attract. RSS is the answer... but they ever listen? I await that day. Speaking as a pretend journalist… the trouble is so many of us are technoslow. I’ve worked for columnists in NYC that get their interns to check their email because they’re tech-fearful. Explaining RSS would be great, as soon as we get them into email.

From an organization standpoint I’m still waiting for media orgs to realize that mass-emails are an ancient and counter productive idea. You offend and alienate more then you attract. RSS is the answer… but they ever listen? I await that day.

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