Comments on: RSS feeds: Your nerd prayers are answered!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:39:26 +0000

RSS is like an auto-subscription system, but better. It’s almost the same as having In The Dark or Snide Remarks subscribers, but instead of reminding (haranguing) your customers with mass emails (costing each one of them about .003% of Gmail space), you just send a little reminder to come check out the site, and that’s really all we need these days. It used to be the “two-click” rule for finding stuff you wanted. Well, now it’s the one-click rule, and you had better bring that link to me, or I’ll just sit their doing my job as usual.

And think of how RSS is saving the environment. A 1MB message sent to one million email addresses everday amounts to 7 million MB of space. Eventually, all of our harddrives will fill up and we’ll have to toss them out on the streets. But if you stored that 1MB somewhere, and then invited one million people to check it out, well then… efficient. See that? (Also, you’re not sending out a million typos per day — not that you ever have any of those, though.) (“Typos”? What’s a “typos?”)

I give us five years until computers no longer have any harddrives at all. Rather, all our data and software will be stored online, and everyone will always be connected all the time. And don’t you think it won’t happen. Whoever comes up with a new 12 step for net junkies now is going to be very, very rich.

By: Steven Gardner

Steven Gardner — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:24:14 +0000

Of course, then I realized that the RSS feed I had hasn’t been working for a while.

By: Steven Gardner

Steven Gardner — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:09:37 +0000

I don’t consider myself an alpha-nerd, but when I learned about RSS I subscribed to yours way back then.

By: ElwoodCity

ElwoodCity — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:09:14 +0000

Thanks Eric. RSS feeds make for time-efficient nerdery, which is the same as Franklin-Covey coolness, I think.

By: Kipluck

Kipluck — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 08:14:58 +0000

TRUE Nerds had prayers answered long before. (But then, I know Randy, too, through his SS site, so Nerds of a feather?) I’ve been subscribed for about a month making me a moderate nerd. (To be a true nerd I would probably have to kiss another nerd in a tree while a guy watches…)

By: corned_beef

corned_beef — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:15:06 +0000

HA! I’ve been subscribed to your blog’s RSS feed for several months now. I AM ALPHA NERD