Taran - I respectfully disagree.
Please give me numbers on the penetration of stand-alone RSS readers. It isn't realistic. Trust me on this. At this point in time these are techy tools and have not caught on with the general public. You are not offering solutions that the vast majority of computer owners/Internet users have or even know about. You are correct about RSS-> SMS but again, how many people in the general public know or understand this? Single-digit percentages at best. Not defining what bearing down is quibbling. It isn't relevant for this discussion. As I said, there are 50 million Mozilla/Firefox downloads worldwide. MSIE still has over 80% of the market. And how many Mozilla/Firefox users know to install the RSS reader extension? Yes, communities should stop playing "sitting duck." but mandating the use of technology that 90% (and that's liberal - it is probably higher) of the population is unaware of or doesn't have is just unrealistic and a recipe for failure in the context of public safety. Remember, AOL, despite its hemorrhaging of users in the past couple of years is still the largest provider by a factor of millions. I stand by my arguments. If you want folks to use the stuff you are suggesting (I and many do, but the vast majority don't) you may be better off devising ways to educate folks (the masses as they used to be called) about this stuff. This is the result of the botched anti-trust action against MS. The Bushies backed off and now the only things on the windows desktop out of the box are what MS mandates. So I DO blame MS. If Firefox with the RSS reader was on most windows desktops out of the box it would have a much, much larger penetration. Until MS is forced to allow this, or the OEMs are sold on it, it ain't gonna happen. Jesse Sinaiko Chicago, IL _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
