...by the inmates...for the inmates...
Saturday, August 27, 2005Another Blip on the RSS Radar
A gentleman at work wants to expand our meager RSS offering. Did someone adjust the thermostat in Hell? I stopped pushing RSS at work after my worst fears were realized. When it comes to RSS, either do it in-house or don't do it at all. No, I don't link to my company because where I work is ear-elephant. I also don't link to our RSS outsourcing vendor. Although the vendor does a poor job, that is not the issue tonight.
The only thing that matters is ... someone wants to expand our RSS feed. Even more amazing, someone else said they thought RSS was a good tool to distribute information internally. Pinch me! Yes, Virginia, there *is* a Santa Claus. (And, yes, I know you should not take a bad implementation and expand it. Humor me here.)
I've been both a producer and consumer of RSS for over 3 years. You either "get it" or you don't. But, if you're going to do it, host it on your own servers or not at all.
Standard disclaimer applies: Opinions expressed are my own, not those of my company. I don't take my opinion seriously, so why should you?
P.S. - An example of the work done by our outsource RSS vendor? We send them our full press release. They put the first paragraph in the RSS feed and link to the full release on our site. The following screenshot from the bottom of a press release in our feed, as rendered by Bloglines a few minutes ago, is offered for your amusement.
That is the improved wording, after I complained about the way they phrased it in the past. Sigh ... if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.
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