There’s an interesting discussion floating around about RSS. I won’t belabor it, but here are a couple of links:

Read/Write Web: 2007 will be a big year for RSS (Richard MacManus)

Ten Things I wish IE7 was about to deliver (Marshall Kirkpatrick)

I got onto this thread via Geek News Central, where Todd Cochrane in: “Some claim 2007 will be a big year for RSS”, writes:

“The author of the Read /Write Weblog says that 2007 will be a big year for RSS. Personally I am not as optimistic, but I have been wrong before.”

“Sites that are going to benefit the most of course are major media outlets, web sites like mine which attract a niche crowd probably will not see such a significant impact. The main problem of course will be educating people on the power of syndication.” (from Geek News Central)

See my view is that we are not going to see mass market adoption of RSS until RSS becomes invisible. (Compare: I would argue there is mass market adoption of XML and yet no normal person knows what it is.)

Yes at some point not to far in the future (but not 2007) many many civilians will be getting benefits from RSS every day, but they won’t know it.

So while I think of course that RSS support in IE7 is super important, I don’t think it will be the catalyst. From what I gather, IE7’s support of RSS will be several times better than what FireFox and Safari already provide. Which is a good thing, but I believe that RSS will be a big success when no one talks about it anymore.

(Also see my musings on what might come after Aggregators, RSS and all that stuff.)

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