Why you should use RSS in plain English

Found on the excellent Ideal Government site, the clearest explanation I’ve seen so far why you should be providing RSS feeds on your site and for your data - in plain English:

• Having a way to get regular updates from a source you trust and want to follow without remembering to check it regularly is certainly convenient.
• Although updates by email can do that, our inboxes are already full of messages that we are not really interested in. The pull nature of syndication feeds puts the receivers of the information in control, as they can remove the feeds from their news aggregators.
• Newreaders allow you to aggregate feeds from various blogs and websites, which save much time. You do not have to download each page to read the content and you can avoid reading articles whose headlines do not interest you. This is a major advantage for someone (like me) who follows 60+ blogs that are updated a daily.

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