RSS Feeds – No SPAM for You!

RSS Feeds

I have the good fortune of belonging to a unique group of entrepreneurs who make their living on the Internet. We participate in a daily email discussion forum where ideas are shared. If you see an email and want to add a comment, the entire group reads your response. It is an incredible hotbed of ideas that are so far out on the curve you can't believe it.

Late April and early May of 2003 had many of this group meeting face-to-face for the first time in fabulous Las Vegas. One of the most progressive members of the group, Chris Pirillo, held court and told all of us about RSS technology. It is a fantastic new aspect of technology that allows you to get the information you want from certain websites without any SPAM or fear of your email address being abused, sold, etc. Why? Because RSS doesn't rely on email to deliver information! It is perhaps the supreme *push* technology.

To see the news aggregator software I use, go to Newsgator. This website has some very good information all about RSS technology and how it can make you very productive.

Glenn Fleishman, a Seattle-based freelance writer for the Seattle Times, wrote a column that appeared on November 8, 2003 in the Seattle Times. Here is a link to the actual column. You will have to register to get access to the column. As of November 19, 2003, the Seattle Times was not charging anything to get into their archives.