Alex Barnett has a nice summary of links and a pro con analysis on this whole strange RSS vs “feeds” naming debate. Good primer if you don’t want to read up on the whole exhausting issue.
I have to say, I really don’t get why Winer and others are so fixated on the RSS name for the CONCEPT of subscribing to push content online. RSS is a format for accomplishing this. It’s the name du jour among the digerati, but that’s about it. It will fade away, and should fade away, because the people who will end up benefitting from it most simply don’t care about the name, except if it creates confusion. Acronyms tend to do that. They care about what it does for them.
“Feeds” as a name is fine, “web feeds” is OK too. RSS is geeky and limiting. I SUBSCRIBE to FEEDS (of content) – if that happens via RSS, sweet, but as a consumer I really don’t care.
Dave, let it go man.
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