Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Blogging, RSS and the Information Landscape: A Look at Online News



Kathy Gill, University of Washington

This paper explores the effect that blogs have had on the adoption of RSS syndication by online news web sites. It uses the diffisuion of innovation models presented in Everett Rogers' The Diffusion of Innovation and Brian Winston's Media, Technology and Society to explain the relationship between RSS, blogs, and online news.

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