Posts Tagged with ‘really-simple-syndication’

First, let me point out that there is in fact a difference – a big difference - between censoring the Web and shutting it down completely (or at least a portion of it), as has been done in Myanmar, or Burma, as it is more familiarly known. Yet I think you’ll agree that both measures can be very impactful.
That said, this is pretty big news. I mean, the people working China’s “Great Firewall” have essentially blocked all RSS feeds. Nationwide. [...]

RSS feeds are nothing to get excited about. Sure, they’re really simple, and the syndication is a great thing for both the publisher and the reader, but RSS is only the way by which the information – the text, the audio, and the video - gets to you, not what gets to you. There’s a piece to the RSS puzzle that does deserve special notice, however: The reader.
The majority of RSS consumers don’t think much about their reader. Most stick [...]