RSS, Podcasting, Blogs: Who Wins?

I would imagine that RSS is still the most dominant theme as it's much easier for bloggers to put together. Podcasting will eventually take over, but that day is not here yet.

Heather:

It's Google *Trends*. I did a live blogging of the Google press day where they announced their various new services--but not Google Health. (see URL above)

RSS is the foundation of all other particular Web 2.0 tools: it's what makes podcasts subscribable, enables us to read more than a handful of blogs, search with persistence and get the social out of social bookmarking when we subscribe to the feed for a tag. It's what tells us when there's been a change made to a wiki page of interest. All of those and more are made possible because of RSS, and most instances of each particular tool will make mention of RSS in the description of its use. All the social media are exciting, and the read-write web is a major change from the past, but it's that combined with access to a quantity information increased by orders of magnitude - with almost zero effort required after an initial subscription over broadband - that represents the huge shift that is web 2.0 if you ask me.

Thanks Bill, made the change.

Recently I read a White Paper by Yahoo that suggested that there is only a very small segment of the blog market that even understands what RSS is...even though they subscribe to their favorite blogs with the technology.