BWMagic's RSS List Building Ezine: Unleash the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS

BWMagic's List Building Newsletter
(Special RSS Edition) March 6 - 2005



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Contents
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o Unleash the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS

o The future of RSS

o Feature Article - Do You Soapbox?

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o Unleash the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS


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o The Future of RSS

RSS has been over-hyped so much lately, unless you're
actually using it and seeing it's effectiveness firsthand,
you will probably be turned off by all this overblown hype.

Don't be.

As a marketing tool, offering information on your website or
product - RSS is very valuable.

As an email (bypass) system - RSS is very valuable.

As a publishing tool, getting your information 'out there', on
other people's desktops and websites - RSS is very valuable.

And the list goes on...

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.

RSS gives us our own publishing facility, 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?

It's only early days for RSS yet - imagine what this system will be
like in 5, 50, or a 100 years?

Everything changes...

Imagine if your idea of an automobile got stuck at the Model T stage
--- ever wonder what a fright you'll get , if suddenly a Ferrari popped
around the turn!

Just something to think about as you read this week's feature article.
Please take it with a grain of salt!!!


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Feature Article
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o Do You Soapbox?

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 blogs 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 you 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. Ever wonder
what it will be like in a hundred years.

Nothing stays the same, everything changes, everything
evolves. Even our methods of thinking, our means of
expressing ourselves. 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?

Ever wonder what 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? Driving me around the bend - waiting
for the last departure call for that Cuckoo flight!

Guess it's my artist's training coming back to haunt me!

A small amount of artist's training goes a long way. Artists
are trained to think 'in', 'outside', 'around', 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 ways
of expression...it's your own little wired soapbox...just
waiting for you to step up.

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...

Now, have you started your blog yet? Can't you see why
it's a great way of getting these kinds of ideas out of
your head and into cyber space where they properly belong.
It's a perfect way of expressing yourself. At the very least,
it will keep all flight departures on hold for a little while.


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Regards,
Titus
www.bizwaremagic.com

The more things change, the more they remain...insane.
Michael Fry & T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04


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