[Fly on the Wall] RSS vs email, Media descriptions, Roll the dice, and Russian spam
Written by on November 1st, 2007 in Ajax News.
Some recent activity at our internal 37signals Campfire chat room.
RSS vs email
| Jason F. |
Email is probably used 100:1 when compared to RSS
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| Jason F. |
maybe 10,000:1
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| Ryan S. |
RSS is harder to understand too
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| Ryan S. |
it’s abstract
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| Ryan S. |
compared to email
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| Jason F. |
Email runs the world
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| Ryan S. |
“send a notification” versus “somehow magically see updates in a different format on a different application”
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| Jason F. |
People know how to get an email.
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| Jason F. |
They understand an email
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| Jason F. |
they’ve been getting emails for 10 years
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| Ryan S. |
when we rely on RSS for things, it’s saying “here learn something new”
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| Ryan S. |
instead of “use what already know”
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| Ryan S. |
another plugin, or another application, another setup process, etc
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| Jason F. |
RSS is way too techie still.
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| Ryan S. |
it’s too complicated
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| Jason F. |
I don’t even use RSS anymore
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| Jason F. |
I wouldn’t want a company to force me to use yet another piece of technology to have to use our products.
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| Jason F. |
Everyone on the planet who uses our products has an email address
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| Jason F. |
a tiny sliver actually use RSS, know what RSS is, and understand the benefits of RSS.
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Media descriptions
| Matt L. |
"Microsoft to Pay $240 Million for Facebook Stake"
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| Matt L. | |
| Sam S. |
"Facebook, a service that lets people set up their personal Web pages,"
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| Sam S. |
worst description ever
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| Jason F. |
Sam: lol
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| Jason F. |
It’s amazing how often the media just totally botches such simple shit like that
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| Sam S. |
yeah, doesn’t give a whole lot of faith in the things they’re reporting about outsider area of expertise
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| Jason F. |
Good observation.
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Roll the dice
| Mark I. |
Jamis, you’ll appreciate this: My 10 year old wrote a program to roll dice and is using it to play D&D by himself.
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| Mark I. |
It’s actually more accurate to say that he has several programs. One for each die type.
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| Jamis B. |
ha! awesome
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| Jamis B. |
tell me he wrote it in Ruby!
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| Mark I. |
Of course.
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| Mark I. |
Using Hackety Hack.
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| Jamis B. |
very cool!
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| Mark I. |
It’s fun to watch. He swears it’s faster for him to load up the program and run it than it is to just roll dice. Of course, he’s delusional.
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Russian spam
| Mark I. |
Incidentally, I came across a filtering rule for email that has completely eliminated all the Russian spam I used to get.
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| Mark I. |
Matches: (в OR и) Do this: Skip Inbox, Delete it |
| Mark I. |
If I got legitimate Russian mail, that wouldn’t work. But since I don’t speak Russian anyhow, I figure I’m safe.
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| Jamis B. |
lol, awesome
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Source: Signal vs. Noise
Original Article: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/664-fly-on-the-wall-rss-vs-email-media-descriptions-roll-the-dice-and-russian-spam