Is RSS dead? Steve Gillmor has a nice eulogy for it in TechCrunchIT. For him Twitter, Facebook and other realtime content has taken over. Well good for him. I do agree that RSS as a mainstream technology has not really caught on with a general audience, and probably never will. I love it, rely on it, read newsfeeds on my mobile phone and computer on a daily basis. I sing the benefits every chance I get, but I haven’t found many converts. But it still has a place.
We recently launched a publication site for case studies and articles generated our of our theater management department, the Theater Management Knowledge Base. In our initial discussion on how to deliver the site, WordPress seemed like the perfect tool, and it has served us very well. There were a couple of tricky requirements, but as it turns out nothing that we couldn’t address.
I posed a question to my LinkedIn group last week:
I am an researching a project and wondered if anyone is using an e-book reader in a teaching or learning application?
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