By Jo Best
Published: Thursday 28 July 2005
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Name
Sean Mulholland
Location
San Francisco
Occupation
Search Engine Marketing Manager
Comment
98% of users shun it? That's quite the sensationalist headline. More accurate would be '98% of users don't know what it is or how to use it'. RSS is a background technology, like HTTP or TCP/IP. The average user doesn't know a thing about HTTP or TCP/IP, the protocols that make the Internet happen, yet they use them every day. Once RSS is made a bit more user friendly and given a cathier brand name we'll see who 'shuns' it.
I use RSS on a daily basis for reading new article...
James G
All that should hopefully change in the near futur...
Quinton
98% of users shun it? That's quite the sensationa...
Sean Mulholland
RSS is still very new but is catching like wild fi...
Anonymous
I totally use RSS. Very convenient, but you only ...
Anonymous
RSS... Hmmm, I tried it, it works, OK, but... so w...
Anonymous
Information overload!
Who has time to take acti...
Nick Cole
Whilst it is an interesting statistic, I think an ...
Anonymous
Don't want it. Don't need it. Don't use it.
Anonymous
As RSS is better integrated into the browser exper...
Tim Swan
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