The Birth of RSS

Dave’s WordPress Blog tells of “How the NY Times came to support RSS”, which, in a way, became the driving force behind the birth of RSS.

Anyway, the NY Times is not a sideline player in the history of RSS, as I’ve written before, they played a central role, first denying us permission to use their content, then allowing it, and in doing so, providing an example for the rest of the publishing industry, which followed their lead without undermining them, without reinventing the technology, to their credit.

What is fascinating about his story is not just about the NY Times involvement, but how the entire process came together, part collaboration, part intrigue, and a huge part of waking a client up then leading them by the nose to eventually getting them to do it “your way” in the end, with everyone fairly happy. Amazing. A really good example for learning “how it should be done” in business.

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bobmorris

Posted February 14, 2006 at 9:51 am | Permalink

FYI: This post is dated March 10, 2006. And many other posts here are also in the future.

Did you have articles waiting to be posted in the future that somehow got posted now?

PS They’re all great posts…

Ray Cassidy

Posted May 4, 2009 at 4:41 am | Permalink

For a really simple syndication service (sic) Rss just doesn’t make sense to me. How do you set up a feed from your own blog or web site; e.g. for your blog or website to notify subscribers via autoresponder and then conversely, how do you set things up so you can subscribe to a few feeds and then have them appearing as new content on your own blog? Something very basic is escaping me!!!

- Lorelle VanFossen
  
  Posted May 5, 2009 at 9:54 am | Permalink
  
  Once someone has added your blog’s feed to their feed reader, it’s all automatic. you do nothing. Nothing to set up. Nothing to do. The rest is up to them and how they handle their feed reader. See Understanding, Using, and Customizing WordPress Blog Feeds and Don’t You Know What a Feed Is Yet? Get To Know Your Feeds! for more help and information.