[Sigia-l] Corporate blogs, again

[Dave Collins]

>>> Of course, you do not need a blog to provide an RSS feed.
>> 
>> True. But I'd say that blogs==RSS the same way that blogs==personal
>> and independent. Not necessarily something that is inherent, but
>> is more or less common use (or assumed).
>
>Truth be told, the only thing that tells me is that RSS is horribly
>underused outside the blogsphere.
>
>I have dozens of blogs in my newsreader. One that I'm particularly excited
>about is a feed updated once a week that provides info on service changes
to
>New York subway system by specific lines. It's syndicated by the cleverly
>named "Disorient Express" site. The tragedy is that the MTA (Metropolitan
>Transportation Authority) should be the ones providing the feed, as the
info
>is scraped from their site. I'm glad I didn't have to wait for some lonely
>MTA train dispatcher to blog.:-)

I'm not really sure what quantifiable benefits RSS has over an email
newsletter system. I suspect the biggest benefit it has is that it's new,
thus marketers have not yet gotten around to exploiting it and mining it
until it too is as glutted with junk and as useless as email.

It seems to me in my ignorance, that in the hypothetical non-RSS world, all
your fave sites would have newsletters and you'd subscribe to them via your
email. You'd get their headlines as often as they sent them. 

Here in the RSS world OTOH, you still subscribe, you just don't do it via
your eddress(c), you do it through a news aggregator. Now, that doesn't mean
they can't send you junk (eventually - they'll get around to it.)

Dave