Einfo the new name for RSS…maybe
Copyblogger posted this morning about the difficulties the term RSS faces as it is introduced to the general public.
I have read similar posts across the web. There seems to be a growing discontent with the term. This site tries to be geared towards beginners. So thinking like a beginner this morning, I understood how RSS is indeed a clumsy term. It is not like email which people soon understood as electronic mail.
I commented on the post above and threw out a few suggestions like “enews”, “efeature”, “estory”. However all these are clumsy as well. The term I like the best from my initial brainstorm is “einfo”.
Einfo – electronic info. Information that is yours now. Info could be a press release, a highway closing alert, a blog post, a news story, anything that RSS can be and could be used for. And instead of a Feed Reader they would become Info Readers: read the information you want in the way you want it.
We live in the information society. We need a way to process that information easily and efficiently as information consumers. Einfo (RSS) is the way we can organize and read the information that is important to us.
Posted by Paul Flyer on Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 in RSS Solutions
