“Companies start to get the instant message. Just because everyone’s using it won’t mean anyone’s making much money on it.” [CNET News.com]
Recently, Robert Scoble noticed that CNET had stopped including summaries in its RSS feed, so he unsubscribed. That’s one of the great things about RSS – if a feed doesn’t interest you anymore, for whatever reason, you just unsubscribe.
I was preparing to unsubscribe from their feed myself, noticing that I hadn’t clicked out to any of their articles since the summaries had disappeared. Then, all of a sudden, the summaries magically reappeared. I guess CNET listened to its users and brought them back. That’s another great thing about RSS – CNET was able to restore the summaries through no effort on the part of its readers.
So now I find myself reading the summaries and clicking out to their site again, which is, of course, the whole point of RSS. š
[The Shifted Librarian]
Hmm, I hadn’t noticed service was restored until Jenny mentioned it. Good for them (and us).