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Today – RSS Awareness Day!

By Daniel 34 Comments Reading Time: < 1 minute

Finally we are at here. I must confess that when I decided on the date, I had no clue that it would clash with International Workers Day (you can see that I have been working from my home for a long time already…). I am not sure if this will help or hinder the project, but regardless its RSS Day today to let’s get the word out!

If you are reading this and have no clue what this RSS thing is all about, just head to RSSDay.org and you will find a succinct explanation over there. Here is a small quotation:

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format used to deliver information from websites and pages that get updated regularly. An RSS document (which is called feed) contains either a summary or the full content from a website.

The main benefit of RSS is that it enables people to stay connected with their favorite websites without having to visit them. Once you subscribe to a particular RSS feed, you will automatically receive updates from the website that publishes the feed, whenever they release new content. The video below illustrates the process.

If you have a blog or website, help us spread the word by writing about RSS (mention it is the RSS Awareness day, teach your readers about the format, write a poem, anything will do!) or wear one of the banners found at http://rssday.org/spread/.

That “Spread the word!” page was also submitted to Digg, so hopefully diggers will give us a hand to let as many people as possible know about the event.

Finally, a big thank you for everyone who already helped and for those that will do today.

Daniel Scocco

About Daniel

Daniel Scocco is a programmer and entrepreneur located in São Paulo, Brazil. His first company, Online Profits, builds and manages websites in different niches. His second company, Kubic, specializes in developing mobile apps for the iOS and Android platforms.

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  1. Ubundu says

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    Kudos to you on the initiative. I appreciate your efforts in raising RSS awareness.

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  2. James Dellow says

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    The RSS Day was a great idea – a few days earlier I was involved with setting up an `Enterprise RSS Day of Action focused on the use of RSS inside the firewall – see

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  3. Kiera Pedley says

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    I’m a day late, but I mentioned you on my blog too!!

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  4. georgette says

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    what a great day it is!! RSS are super duper!! I think it’s most importantly to find all of the ones that make you the happiest and that bring loving and positive inspiration to your day.

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  5. Daniel Scocco says

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    @GoldSpy, thanks man.

    @Muscle Post, hope to see you around again.

    @Steveg, appreciated.

    @Rob, that is pretty much what Feedburner does automatically ain’t it?

    @Alec, we all do 🙂 .

    @George, yeah for next year I will need to review the date of the RSS Day.

    @Indy Jane, I needed to remove them temporarily because they were not getting displayed correctly. Will try to put them back soon.

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  6. Indy Jane says

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    What happened to the buttons that said, “I use RSS and so should you!”. Now that May1 is past, I would like to switch out the buttons.
    BTW, RSS Day is a great idea!
    blessings,
    Indy Jane

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  7. George R. Eddy says

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    I never really knew about International Workers Day. However, your RSS Awareness day is also clashing with the U.S. National Day of Prayer.
    I always thought it ironic that the National Day of Prayer seems to coincide with college final exams.

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  8. Alec Rios says

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    Just posted my RSS Day article. I’d love to see RSS become more popular.

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  9. Farfield says

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    Ok Daniel, I guess you’re right…

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  10. Cory O'Brien says

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  11. steveg says

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    We did our part on Bscopes and

    graphed this feed too. See

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  12. Muscle Post says

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    I think this is a fantastic idea! I just began blogging about a month ago but I already have an RSS feed on my site and it’s great. Love the site!

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  13. Daniel Scocco says

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    @Abraham, looks pretty interesting I will check that out. Oddly enough I am still a hardcore bloglines user 🙂 .

    @Jacob Share, it is going pretty good so far, with some big blogs covering it as well. I will write a complete coverage next week.

    @David Shaw, among some secondary readers I have a really huge amount of subscribed feeds, would be difficult to share them all 🙂 , but I might one day thanks for the suggestion.

    @Siddharth, thanks for the help.

    @Carlos, thanks for spreading the word.

    Thanks everyone else that wrote about it as well!

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  14. Kyle Judkins says

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    This is a great idea, and I feel proud to do my part!

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  15. Gordy says

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    I talk about RSS to colleagues all the time. Here’s my post about RSS Awareness Day.

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  16. 小舟 says

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    haappy RSS day.and the Labor’s Day

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  17. Chuck Anthony says

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    Hello Daniel, Kudos to you on the initiative. I appreciate your efforts in raising RSS awareness. doing my part, I posted “RSS, the News and You” this morning…

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  18. Rob O. says

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    Yup, good stuff, Daniel! We did our part to try to spread the word:

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  19. Carlos Montero says

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    It’s good to talk about RSS… it’s one of the best tools in the internet (together with email) but only techies use it.

    I did a little writing yesterday on the subject that will appear as top post in my blog for a few days. I write from Spain, so it’s in spanish.

    Thanks for the initiative and the website, Daniel.

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  20. Siddharth says

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    I am displaying a 125×125 adbox on my website and have done introduction post about rssday.org with a banner on 28th. So may be I have done my part for the informative cause and today I will also write a post about RSS so I will do my part to famous the website today too.

    Great initiative Daniel, and yes Labour Day is today in many countries and this is point too

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  21. Daniel Scocco says

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    @Aseem, definitely. I know many blogs that do it.

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  22. Aseem Kishore says

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    I’m planning on adding a “What is RSS?” link underneath my subscribe button to help people learn about RSS…haven’t seen this on too many blogs, do you think it’s a good idea?

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  23. Deb - Mom of 3 Girls says

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    Helping to try and spread the word!

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  24. Daniel Scocco says

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    @Farfield, not for everything, but RSS Awareness is something that I do think should be reinforced.

    5% of Internet population using one of the most useful tools around is really a shame.

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  25. Jacob Share says

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    I’m really looking forward to seeing how this plays out, Daniel.

    I just posted about the usefulness of RSS for job seekers:

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  26. Farfield says

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    Come on people, do we need to have a special day for everything? I’m not digging this.

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  27. Abraham says

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    I wrote a step-by-step guide to Google reader. Hopefully people will be RSSing by the time their done with the article.
    Thanks for the motivation!

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  28. Daniel Scocco says

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    Oh I just realized today is not Workers day in the US, good thing, cause it is on most countries.

    Thanks guys for spreading the word.

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  29. Dan says

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    Great initiative Daniel. I wrote a small article about it on my blog. Hope it helps 😀

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  30. Muhammad says

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    Yes, here in Portugal too, today is the labor day, 1st May

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  31. David Shaw says

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    Have mentioned it on my blog several times, and in many forums that I use.

    Has got a good response!

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  32. Daniel Scocco says

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    @David, it is labor day here in Brazil at least.

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  33. Rajaie says

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    Don’t have a website to help spread it, but I did digg it.

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  34. David Bradley says

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    Labor day? Isn’t that the first Monday in September? In the US, at least…

    db

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