May 1st: RSS Awareness Day

Today it is RSS awareness day and I would like to let you know about it. RSS awareness day is an initative by Daniel Scocco from DailyBlogTips to promote the great technique RSS to a much larger audience.

Why did Daniel called for a RSS awareness day? Because RSS is a great way to keep updated with all the news around you, but unfortunately only a small percentage (5.4%) is using RSS. We RSS users think it’s time to introduce RSS to more users.

What is RSS?

But is it clear to you what RSS really is? I will not explain the technique in depth, because that isn’t possible! RSS is too simple!

All you need is a RSS reader and a blog/news site. You can use an online RSS reader like GoogleReader or Bloglines. Sign up for an account and turn to your favorate blog, look for a RSS button and copy the URL to your RSS reader.

After you “subscribed” to your favorate feeds, you can read all the latest blog posts and news messages from one single website. This has a great advantage as you don’t have to visit all the websites to see if there might something new. We just stopped wasting time, and therefore money.

Where is RSS going?

I guess RSS has a long way to go when it is introduced to the big public. It is a easy to use and simple principle which can be adopted by all the internet crowd easely. Services like iGoogle and Netvibes are doing a great job; people get involved in RSS in a way they don’t even notice.

Awareness day

Daniel, I wish you most of luck with the campain and I hope RSS gets the regonision it deserves from a lot more internet users then the small 5,4 percent internet users using RSS now.

The campain is added to my calender for next year. Everyone reading this with a blog, try to help RSS by writing an blogpost about it!

Hallelujah RSS!