This is probably one of my favorite stories I read when I was growing up. And today being RSS Awareness Day. It seems a nice way to celebrate it. Its a nice story and seems to be applicable to most things in life whether it be dealing with issues or a gazillion of posts to read after not opening one’s rss feed for a couple of days.

Birmingham City University (UK) School of Media’s Senior Lecturer in Online Journalism and Magazines Paul Bradshaw wrote an interesting article, How to: use RSS and social media for newsgathering, for journalism.co.uk. Bradshaw writes the use of RSS feeds combined with other social media tools can help journalists (i) spot new leads and (ii) put more meat in their stories.

And this is no April Fool’s joke … belated as it may be. Daily Blogging tips in a post, May 1st RSS Awareness Day: Get Involved, proposes that May 1 be celebrated as RSS Day. This seems to be a good idea and a fine way to spread the gospel of RSS.
But why do the good people behind Daily Blogging Tips proposes and copyblogger support May 1 as RSS Day? And how do we go about celebrating May 1?

There have really been several attempts to promote and teach the benefits of RSS to a lot of people. And yet RSS is all around us when we venture into the Internet. We here at A Feed Is Born (AFIB) really like Common Crafts’ video teaching us about RSS. Then we figured one of the best place to learn about RSS is from the person himself. And by chasing the four winds and making bargains with the seven Internet Jinns, AFIB was able to conjure up RSS in the form of a man who we interviewed.
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It has nearly been a month since Yahoo Pipe celebrated its first anniversary. The anniversary post at Yahoo’s The Pipes Blog is interesting because aside from waxing poetical over progress for the year it actually is a round-up of nearly all of the pipes, modules and features added to Yahoo Pipes. It is a good place to begin one’s journey into Yahoo Pipes. Read the full post here.
The site also has the latest

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE(r)) is releasing a new book that might be of interest to RSS evangelists. educators and just about anyone interested in RSS. The name of the book is … RSS for Educators: Blogs, Newsfeeds, Podcasts, and Wikis in the Classroom and it was written by teacher and instructional technologist John G. Hendron.
According to the press release of the booK:

January seems to be the right time to introduce RSS education tools. Amidst the financing deals, the business models adopted and the interest in RSS it just seem right to introduce a couple of RSS Education videoe on can use to spread the Gospel that RSS and web feeds are good and can improve your life. RSS really is simple syndication. Here are two of the easiest to use and popular RSS educational videos.

For 2007, RSS was the third most asked term in the “What is” question on Google. It was bested by love and autism. This is interesting and of course shows two or three things. And it also leads to more questions regarding from what factors affected the results and what are the implications of it. Quo vadis ?
What are the implications of this?

I learned about this podcast from slaw.ca. Something to listen to while working or just killing time. The podcast and podcaster, manager of legal information for the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Great Library David Whelan,talks about RSS and its practical use to law practitioners.

Are you still looking for “the Feed Reader”? Yes who is not right? It is beginning to feel like the search for the perfect mouse trap. But then again like a journey between point A and B it is the trip that is interesting and worthwhile. And if you are still looking for the best Feed Reader you might stop, pause and read this slide prepared by The Channel Web Network. And it is a slide presentation about The Best RSS Readers.