DIY Librarian

The January 19 issue of the Christian Science Monitor has a nice article about RSS. The first paragraph would be a great introduction for anyone who doesn’t know what RSS is, because of focusing on the technology, it focuses on what it can do for you. Let’s face it—people don’t buy air conditioners because they’re fascinated by the cooling mechanism; they buy them because they want cool air. (An idea taken from Bill Buxton’s keynote at SLA 2005.) And that is exactly the point of the Monitor article:

In fact, if RSS really succeeds, you’ll forget you ever heard of the term. It’ll just be another part of the invisible “plumbing” that runs the Internet, says John Palfrey, executive director of The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass.