That’s the one word that isn’t an adjective in the acronym RSS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Really Simple Syndication<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Update:<\/strong> Lol there are literally two<\/em> mistakes there. RSS is an initialism<\/a> not an acronym, and “Really” is an adverb<\/a> not an adjective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n RSS isn’t just about RSS readers. Even though, gosh<\/em> if I don’t love RSS readers. It’s about putting content in a format that is designed to be portable. An API for content isn’t a metaphor, that’s literally what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RSS is always on my mind, because it’s like my daily newspaper, but I’d wager it’s not exactly at the peak of people’s attention, even developers. It’s been getting a smidge of attention though, as Google is dipping it’s toes back into RSS with a “following” feature in Android Chrome<\/a>. Publishers (like me) are always interested in ways we can help people read our stuff, and in this case, the way we help is by having an RSS feed. Sweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But again, it’s not just about reader apps. For example: every single podcast (every single podcast<\/em>) is an RSS feed. That’s notable to say the least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I also see apps that take advantage of it in unique ways. MonitoRSS<\/a> is one of them. The whole point of it is kicking content over to Discord channels by\u2009\u2014\u2009you guessed it\u2009\u2014\u2009RSS feeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also build literal websites from aggregated content. For example, your WordPress site can suck in RSS feeds and re-display the content.<\/a> I’m not 100% sure how it works but the Sidebar Webring<\/a> is presumably powered by RSS as well. It’s just like CSS-Trickz<\/a>. Alex could have used RSS to grab that content, it just so happens WordPress also has a JSON API which is often easier than parsing the XML of RSS. Dave and Robin have used Feedbin’s API to display posts that they read and “like” via RSS<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Having an RSS feed opens doors to all sorts of user-friendly ways for people to follow and read your content, above and beyond RSS readers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That’s the one word that isn’t an adjective in the acronym RSS. 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