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RSS in Plain English (Video)

Great, simple explanation of what RSS can do for the user.

There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.

I love the reversal of the arrows and the “Netflix vs. Video Store” analogy.

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6 Responses to “RSS in Plain English (Video)”

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    Judith Siess:

    the clip was absolutely FABULOUS!

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    Stephen Francoeur:

    David, thanks again for turning up yet again something invaluable. I’m going to spread this video far and wide among my colleagues who are still a little uncertain about what feeds and blogs are really about.

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    Eugene Barsky:

    Funny, we were just thinking doing a short tutorial on RSS here in UBC and here this video comes online…it saved a couple of hours of our valuable time, yay!

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    Medic Facility blog on health » Blog Archive » RSS in Plain English — The Best Video Explanation in 3 Minutes:

    [...] Link via davidrothman.net. [...]

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    davidrothman.net » Blog Archive » Social Bookmarking in Plain English:

    [...] Their video on RSS was also exceptionally good. [...]

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    [...] Fun tutorials on Social Bookmarking in Plain English (David Rothman) and how to use RSS to easily subscribe and read many blogs [...]

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