SMNR & RSS

Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 7:41pm in PR General, Technology  | 

RSS is a great piece of technology and it’s changed my reading habits forever. It allows me to keep up to speed with countless blogs and news outlets via my computer or even my mobile phone. Even though I’ve been known to complain about information overload from using it on occasion I still couldn’t do without it.

The only other issue with RSS is, once it’s aggregated into an RSS reader, the content often doesn’t come out quite right. It’s a little obscure shall we say. Sometimes images aren’t where they’re supposed to be or the social networking video might be missing. I know my blog feed suffers with it in Bloglines. Sometimes the RSS reader you’re using is to blame and other times (I’m assuming) it’s the XML file.

What’s this got to do with the SMNR as they title of the post seems to suggest, I hear you ask (not). Well, basically, if the SMNR is supposed to be about the sharing of content then you would hope that all that content is distributed through the RSS feed properly and manageable. Luckily ours is, as I’ve tested using the two most popular RSS readers, Bloglines and Google Reader.

The only issue is that Bloglines doesn’t show the YouTube video. But that’s a Bloglines issue me thinks as I’ve never viewed a social network video in Bloglines for about a year now.

The example release I’ve used is the fictional one we did purely for illustration and experimental purposes.

REAL SMNR

GOOGLE READER

BLOGLINES

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