The RSS Soundbite

Tim Bray is in sales mode and wants to know What's the RSS Soundbite? My advice would be to load up NewsGator and pitch RSS as broadcast email. Email has already achieved pretty near universal acceptance in business. Many people consider their email archives to be their primary information storage vault — and the ones that don't know people who do. So pitch RSS as broadcast email and don't give the web a chance to confuse the issue.

My personal peeve with most RSS Aggregators lies in their inability to properly archive articles for later use. So while other aggregators may do a better job with the RSS, I think NewsGator is the clear cut winner for Outlook users. Greg is clearly biased, but I have to agree that when RSS news is as much a part of your day as email, you want them all integrated into a central information management point.

Now, if I someone would just step up to the plate for Mac OS/X.

Now that's Hockey

I started the night expecting another Ducks/Devils defensive struggle when all of a sudden a hockey game broke out. Now, I don't need to see a lot of goals to enjoy a hockey game; but I do need to see a lot of potential for goals. And I got my money's worth yesterday. It was a wide open game with pretty goals, lucky goals, disallowed goals, and disputed goals. The only thing it didn't have was mind boggling, out of this world goaltending. But there's still time for that in the next game.