Re: [syndication] The constraint to widespread adoption of syndication

[Brent Simmons <brent@ranchero.com>]

On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 11:26  AM, Mark Fletcher wrote:

> Personally, I think there are a couple of other issues hampering
> aggregator adoption (if anything is hampering it, and I'm not sure). 
> One
> is terminology. You say news feed, and I might think USENET. You say
> news aggregator, and as a normal user I might have no idea what you're
> talking about. And RSS is probably a meaningless acronym for most
> people. So terminology is confusing. Second is education. I bet the 
> vast
> majority of people who could benefit from using an aggregator have no
> idea that they exist and don't fathom how they operate.

I've been using "Web news reader" and "RSS Web news reader." It's not 
perfect, but I think it's not bad, either. It immediately distinguishes 
it from a Usenet newsreader. And even if you don't know what a 
newsreader is, you still at least get the idea that it's some kind of 
application that reads news from the Web.

-Brent