RSS And The Billion Channel Internet

The real potential of RSS lies in Broadcasting. Will 
the future version of RSS, presently only in its
'Model T' stage, provide a personal TV channel for 
every website on the Internet? Ever ask yourself, 
what will the Ferrari version of RSS look like 
when it pops around the turn?

The real potential of RSS lies in Broadcasting.

In former times, jumping up on a soapbox or any
platform in the street to speak your mind was
a popular pastime. Mainly reserved for political
radicals, the biblically inspired or the Cuckoo's 
frequent flyer's club - the soapbox did fill a need.

The need to express oneself. 

I have always thought of RSS and blogging as 
more of a 'soapbox' than a 'journal' or a 'weblog'
of daily events. A modern day techno version of the 
soapbox with the transfer of one's firmly held 
beliefs/opinions in a few kb's here and there along 
the information highway.

The stronger the beliefs or opinions - the more 
popular the blog. The more unique the content - the 
more entertaining the blog is to read.

It also gives us a platform for entertaining 
off-beat ideas and new ways of thinking. And it's 
a very democratic platform - where anyone's input 
can be just as valid as another.

Forget the vote, the blog is a much more democratic tool.

And it's very young. It has a long way to go.

Nothing stays the same, everything changes, everything 
evolves -- even our methods of thinking, our means of 
expressing ourselves. RSS/Blogs is changing the way we 
communicate.

Imagine a Model T, a Fifties Cadillac, and a present day 
Ferrari in your mind. Now imagine your vision or view of 
the automobile if you only had the Model T to base it on? 
the Cadillac? 

Don't underestimate or even judge RSS by its present day
form - this soapbox is morphing as you read this!

Ever wonder what RSS/blogs will be like in fifty or a 
hundred years? What about websites? What about the 
Internet? We're only at the Model T stage - ever wonder 
what that Ferrari will look like?

Lately, I can't get that idea out of my head! What blogs, 
the web, all this will be like in fifty years, a hundred 
years, a thousand years?  Personally, the future of RSS is 
what interests me the most.

I have some background in the art field, people in that field
are always looking ahead. Artists are trained to think 'in', 
'outside', and 'ahead' of the box. Especially ahead of the 
box -  five shots ahead of the cue ball - at all times.

For an artist, it's a pure matter of survival. They have 
to be ahead of crowd just to be mildly interesting. The real 
fortune tellers leap ahead of the pack. Forging the way.

Blogs and RSS are forging the way for new ideas, new methods 
of expression...it's our own little wired soapbox...just 
waiting for us to step up. And that soapbox is expanding
and evolving -- what will that 'soapbox' morph into? 

Blogs/RSS will evolve and change. No doubt it will turn 
that wired soapbox into your own personal interactive TV 
channel -- broadcasting your ideas, opinions, products onto a 
billion channel internet... 

Sound too far-fetched? Well, the radio version of this 
system is just starting. Podcasting is just turning the
corner - read more about it in this Forbes.com Article.


If we have radio, TV can't be far behind! And the key
is RSS.

RSS stands for 'Really Simple Syndication'. RSS gives us our 
own publishing facility, but it's more akin to broadcasting 
than publishing. It broadcasts our ideas, our websites,
our products...

Basically, I believe, RSS is paving the way for a billion channel
internet where each website will be it's own interactive tv channel.
As storage space, transmission, download times... becomes irreverent or
instantaneous --- how can it not happen?

As we crave more visuals, more audio, and more instant gratification 
from the internet and webpages; how can RSS not deliver it?

The foundation, the infrastructure and the groundwork are already 
present; connecting the dots will only be a matter of time.

So keep your eye on the cursor and don't underestimate or even judge 
RSS by its present day form; this soapbox is morphing as you read this!

And grab that remote; thanks to RSS, surfing a billion TV channels may 
just become your favorite pastime or nightmare in the very near future. 


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