Bel pezzo di Scott Rosemberg su Salon a proposito di RSS (se non siete abbonati dovrete guardarvi un po' di pubblicità... ma di solito è bella pubblicità :-) :

What if someone had sat you down in 1994 and told you, "There's this new thing called HTML, and it's going to change how we get much of our news and information"? (Maybe you were lucky enough that someone actually did this for you. It happened to me -- though it took more than one introduction for the message finally to get through.)

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RSS, a similarly opaque name for a similarly important technology, is at just such a moment in its history. This much-argued-over but basically elementary technical standard allows you to subscribe to blogs -- or any other source of information.