Berkman Center Affiliates to Fund RSS Innovations
John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and former fellow Jim Moore hope to encourage feed innovation in the business world with funds from their new company RSS Investors LP. The Boston Globe article linked above has more information.
beSpacific highlights a New York Times article discussing the use of feeds for advertising.
I’m enjoying noticing the differences between how the various media outlets handle technical terms like RSS, weblog, podcast, etc. RSS being an abbreviation for Really Simple Syndication certainly seems to be carrying far in the press. It actually stands for several other things, too, like RDF Site Summary or Rich Site Summary. It’s all in who you ask. RSS with or without periods between the letters? And where are Atom feeds in this? Do some journalists even realize there are two kinds of feeds? Or is Atom really not spawning the excitement and innovation RSS is?
Web log to me is a log used to track Web stats–it’s not the same thing as j’s scratchpad. (Web logs, for example, are far more interesting and witty.)
But I digress~
