RSS is awesome

RSS is terrible as a format (Atom is much better), but RSS is awesome as an idea. If your web site were a database, RSS would be like WAL. If your website were differentiable, it would be like its derivative, or rather a Lagrangian, taken at the moment of last update.

(BTW all serious static site generators know how to produce an RSS/Atom feed.)

We should popularize a JSON-based alternative, we'll call it "Absurdly Simple Syndication."

I like the general term "Web feed" as an umbrella term, I found about that on this article https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-are-web-feeds

Also that blog has some other good related articles:

- What is RSS: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-is-rss

- What is Atom: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-is-atom

- What is JSON feed: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-is-json-feed

- What are feed readers: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-are-feed-readers

- What is OPML: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-is-opml

How about JSON Enhanced Syndication and Tracking?

Because the main content of a blog post is an article, markup actually works really nicely. Although I suppose you could embed HTML in a JSON string

Your site's RSS feed is just another view of the items on your site, no? It's the RSS _reader_ that "differentiates" it for you?

And instead of "feeds", call them "holes". And instead "subscriptions", they're "heads up". Dave Winer's would be the biggest with the most!

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