‘RSS is doing to the Web today what the Web has been doing to print’

Infoworld’s Matt McAlister says, “The day InfoWorld’s top news RSS feed received more requests than our home page, I started thinking a frightening thought – RSS is doing to the Web today what the Web has been doing to print for the last several years. We have disintermediated our Web site by offering our news in an easier to access format…again.”

(via MicroPersuasion)

May 25, 2005 by
Filed Under: Essays and Commentary

COMMENTS

  • http://www.joewrite.com/ Joe Murphy

    That’s a false equivalence. A home page view is somebody (or some bot) visiting the page. It’s a much better metric than an RSS feed view.

    An RSS feed “view” is often a scheduled ping from a bloglines, newsgator or some other web service. They can and do ping the feed multiple times through the day.