[Sigia-l] Rant about bad IA practice.

[Stewart Dean]

Sorry Peter and Dave,

You're both part of that minority.  Mefeedia.com and Del.icio.us  are both site used by that minority!  Neither are used by the average web user and is part of the web 2.0 hype. Mefeedia is a techie site for those who are into RSS and know how to get a pod cast up online, I personaly have never even heard of it before. Of course both of those are going to have high RSS usage. Del.icio.us   -  just look at the name!  Get some persepective on this.    

Dave, IT'S A BLOG.  Blogs have been much hyped by the media and in general are am example of niche cultures getting more niche. Once upon a time folks got a varied cultural diet as they where unable to customise their information input.  Now no matter how niche you are you can feed that interest with just the right sites, the right kind of opinion and the right people telling you it's okay to do what you do.  So if you think RSS is great and fantastic and have a blog - then there's a chance you audience are also part of that minority.  

My concern is Web 2.0 type attitudes like you two have is alienating the average web user. It's vital to have empathy for your users, not just your peers.  You both represent why RSS feeds are on many sites and most users go 'huh?' at them.

And if you need confirmation that you are not 'the average user' then when did you get gmail accounts?  

Stewart Dean



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> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:35:17 -0400
> From: petervandijck at gmail.com
> To: davezilla at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Rant about bad IA practice.
> CC: stew8dean at hotmail.com; markb at luxworldwide.com; sigia-l at asis.org
> 
> Mefeedia.com serves more traffic as RSS than as regular pages.
> Del.icio.us does so as well I hear. I wouldn't underestimate RSS's
> adoption with the new integrated features in IE7 and FF2. I'm not
> saying it's a majority of users that uses feedreaders, but it is
> significant and growing fast.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 10/26/06, Davezilla <davezilla at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/26/06, Stewart Dean <stew8dean at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm sure there are some who browse sites as RSS feeds,  but they point are they are a minority.  The concept of feeds is just not really that clear to the average internet user or even enticing.
> >
> > I have several thousand readers a day on my 11 year-old blog. About
> > 45% are now reaching it through RSS. I'm sure I'm not representing a
> > majority, but the number of RSS subscribers is higher than you think.
> >
> > --
> > Color me gone,
> > Dave Linabury (Davezilla)
> > <http://davezilla.com>
> >
> 
> 
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