{"id":1587,"date":"2006-10-05T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T13:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2006-10-05T08:30:02","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T13:30:02","slug":"rotfl-13rz-not-1337","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/rotfl-13rz-not-1337\/","title":{"rendered":"ROTFL! 1@\/\\\/\\3rz not 1337"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC gives us the shocking news: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/5406498.stm\">&#8220;Geekspeak still baffles web users&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The article tells us <em>&#8220;So while 40% of online Britons receive news feeds, 67% did not know that the official term for this service was Really Simple Syndication.&#8221;<\/em> Not that Brits need to know that but would it help if they knew that the meaning of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RSS_(protocol)\">RSS<\/a> has changed with each release beginning as <strong>RDF Site Summary<\/strong> (for RSS 0.9 and 1.0), then becoming the more luser friendly <strong>Rich Site Summary <\/strong>(for RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0) before being renamed <strong>Really Simple Syndication<\/strong> (for RSS 2.0).<\/p>\n<p>Whilst your garden variety Brits are not so 1337, those who use the net are Open savvy to the point of rejecting the iPods for more Open MP3 players:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Regular surfers are, according to the survey, gadget-hungry. Interestingly, although 68% of those interviewed possessed an MP3 player, only 20% owned iPods &#8211; the biggest selling digital music player.<\/p>\n<p>The iPod may be less popular with surfers because there are fewer online music stores from which music can be purchased, said Mr Burmaster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole ethos behind the internet is about open access and for people already online, being able to access music from a variety of sources is important,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC gives us the shocking news: &#8220;Geekspeak still baffles web users&#8221;. The article tells us &#8220;So while 40% of online Britons receive news feeds, 67% did not know that the official term for this service was Really Simple Syndication.&#8221; Not that Brits need to know that but would it help if they knew that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","category-information-commons","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}