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Actually, rss is reasonably mainstream. You don't have to explain rss to normal people! Most of my non-hacker friends use some sort of feed reader. They know
by aneesh 18y ago
Actually, rss is reasonably mainstream. You don't have to explain rss to normal people!
Most of my non-hacker friends use some sort of feed reader. They know that RSS lets them read blog posts in their feedreader without visiting the blog, even though they may not know the format specifications.
- drinko 18y agoI guess it depends on who your friends are, but mine have no clue. Part of the trouble is that awful name.
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- krschultz 18y agoI don't know a person who uses RSS and I am in college and all my friends are engineers. I think hackers often mistake their friends as representative of the national demographic. I bet more people type URLs into Google search than use RSS. Seriously, have you ever noticed how many internet users type www.cnn.com into a Google search box? That is probably the median level of internet proficiency in this country.