Re: [syndication] Re: Evangelizing RSS

["Rael Dornfest" <rael@oreilly.com>]

Howdy,

Julian Bond writes:

> <rael@oreilly.com> writes
> >Howdy,
> >
> >Quite simply, RSS is a win-win-win...
> >
> >  * Web site producers acquire eyeballs via textual banner ads that
> >    folks are more than thrilled to host.
>
> Agreed. So how do we get the news outlets, who already syndicate via
> Moreover, to add the XML button to their sites. Can I suggest a campaign

Just to be clear, these sites are not actually creating syndicated feeds
themselves at all, but are rather screen-scraped by Moreover and those
scrapings turned into RSS.  They don't have to do a thing.  Getting them to
produce their own home-grown RSS files is something else entirely.

> to email all your favourite news sources suggesting they make public an
> RSS feed?

I tended to do this for quite some time (still do on occasion), but didn't
get much of a response.  For efficacy, this should be a larger-scale
effort -- of what form, I'm not sure.

Rael