2005 = Year of RSS

The same folks who said that 2004 would be the "Year of the Blog" are saying that 2005 will be the "Year of RSS" (Really Simple Syndication). [UPDATE: This is something I've probably heard at the Berkman Conference on Journalism, but I don't have a citation. Here's one]

RSS basically allows the user to have more control over the content, as Tim Yang demonstrates in his buzzing post 15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but I got carried away).

Yang received a lot of del.icio.us link love for aggregating a bunch of links describing all of the latest innovative ideas for how to use RSS.

This shows me two things:
1.) RSS is a hot topic -- for good reason.
2.) You can get a lot of link love by aggregating a lot of useful links into one post.

One of the reasons that I chose to go with Drupal/CivicSpace setup was because of the RSS capabilities that it offers. Each authorized user receives a blog that has an RSS feed -- this is going to be really important down the road when I'm going to start coordinating a bunch of researchers who are contributing nuggets of insight and information.