Is RSS Mainstream? (Via Steven Cohen) I have a simple, unscientific test for determining if a web service or product has crossed over into the mainstream: I ask my friends and family — most of whom are not very geeky and generally represent average technology users, in my opinion — if they’re using the service. [...]
Any of you Google Reader users use the share feature a lot? What sorts of things do you share? Do you follow other people’s shared items? The only person I know of who actively looks at my shared items and comments on them (verbally) is M. Just looking at my shared items and wondering why [...]
IE 7 ruined my Keeping Up to Date, database alerts/RSS class. It was the only browser available on the computers in the library training room, and the fact that it automatically, neatly handles RSS feeds and displays them in a nice readable manner meant that I couldn’t make my point that (for non-IE 7 users) [...]