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I’ve been accused of attacking the Macintosh Web for not offering full RSS feeds with my last 4 or 5 posts on RSS.

That wasn’t my intention. My intention is to get the conversation about full RSS feeds out in the open instead of behind closed doors. Some of the people that have been participating in the conversation have some great ideas… and I hope that the Mac Web Publisher’s sit up and listen (or at least comment on why they can’t do what’s being asked of them in public).

That being said, I’d like to make a public plea for a few more Macintosh sites to add RSS feeds, or better their current feeds:

MacDesktops – the best place for Macintosh Desktops. I’d like to see category feeds, or at the least the last 20 desktops in a feed. I’m thinking that this one site probably has the best opportunity to garner some support for these feeds offered through a subscription program. It’d be damned cool.

MacUpdate – This site’s got some great sponsors and I think they could generate a little bit more income from their RSS readers, if they offered their sponsors the ability to sponsor an RSS feed… I envision seeing more content in the feed that they currently offer like “related software links” and possibly “user reviews of software” or at least links to them in the feeds.

SmallDog – SmallDog is the best damned online Mac retailer (and probably the best in Vermont too) I’ve ever worked with. I’d love to see them offer their price list, or perhaps a top 20 items, or maybe even a 20 new products list via RSS. The coolest thing about that would be that even the websites that they sponsor could cull that data, reformat it and present it online somewhere even if people didn’t get into subscribing to their RSS feed as individuals. Actually… I think the best thing they could offer today would be an RSS feed of the current Today’s Featured Value. That would be cool.

For more reading on the subject of RSS, I’d like to point you here, and some of these posts.

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