RSS Done Right For Web 2.0

Posted up yesterday on Newsvine, a rant by an individual named Martin Ringlein is not only an emphatic diatribe about the ills of current presentations of RSS technology. It’s got a lot of truth in there as well.

There’s a constant push to find new ways to mold XML’s offerings into the latest geekish wet dream, but is anyone trying to iron out aggregation to make it appeal to the luddites out there? After all, they do make up the majority of users presently online. If anything can be analogous to a pot of gold, the pool of technophobes is it.

I do have to mention that since the advent of GUI wonders like Newsfire and Sage, there’s been a lot of improvement in the gathering of news, but when the buck stops at function and fails to attend to form, a mutual loss takes place; one that leaves the developer without the chance to expand his/her clientele, and leaves a massive group of potential customers on the other side of the fence completely.

Addressing this apparent problem wouldn’t be daunting in the least bit, and a grand base of beta testers willing to provide free, valuable, and often very objective advice is there. What seems to look like a small inconvenience is starting to burgeon into a rather hefty roadblock. Before the fence is insurmountable, I believe it’d be in the best interested of all factions and camps to make RSS’s power not only convenient, but accessible to anyone, whether veteran or newb.