In defense of RSS
Lots of buzz today about RSS (dying or not dying).
If you're not using it, can I strongly suggest you give it a try? I use Newsfire. Not sure the particular readers matters, though.
Here's what you need to know:
- It's not particularly difficult to keep up with 200 blogs you care about in less than hour using an RSS reader.
- RSS provides home delivery. Instead of remembering where to click, or waiting for a post to get all buzzy and hot, the good stuff comes to you. Automatically and free.
- Subscribing to a blog is easy. Just click here for my blog, for example. In Newsfire, you can paste the URL of any blog and it automatically finds the RSS feed for you.
RSS is quiet and fast and professional and largely hype-free. Perhaps that's why it's not the flavor of the day.
Phi Beta Iota: The Public Daily Brief done by Winston Maike (RIP) out of Australia can be seen at the Archives. With his death and the economic crash we had to discontinue–but on a shoestring, we covered all ten threats, all twelve policies, all eight demogrpahics, once a week, in eight pages, AND a single one page presidential-level summary for all 30 factors. 6,000 people were receiving that weekly document. OCS/FBIS does not offer anything helpful to Whole of Government–if they did, they would have focused on RSS to individual action officers across all the Departments and agencies, with the added value of using that to bond classified subject matter experts with the larger community of open source experts through the non-intelligence action officers. 100 T-1 lines into an existing septic tank does not impress us.
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