RSS Awareness Day: Coming May 1st
Back in 2005 5% of the Internet users said they were using RSS aggregators or XML readers to get the news and other information delivered from blogs and content-rich Web sites as it is posted online.
Feedburner recently reported that they track around 60 million RSS subscribers. Even if we bump that number to 70 million RSS users (counting people that use RSS with other applications or platforms) this would still convert to a meager 5,4% of the Internet users around the world, as of today.
RSS is a tool that is so useful in my everyday life currently and please support RSS Awareness Day.
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I tried this last year with my Click an Orange campaign, which I’ve already mentioned to Daniel. It didn’t take off. Obviously. I hoped the novelty of my title would make it more likely to catch on. This new awareness campaign is going to be big, here’s hoping it benefits us all with new regular readers…
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