RSS feeds are great because they give an interested person a perfectly passive to keep up to date. All that interested person has to do is click "subscribe." I would love to see more bands, (if not EVERY band/ musician), use this for show dates. For example, let's say band X only plays out every few months. If I was able to "subscribe" to the their performance schedule, I would be automatically updated without having to go search it out, without having to hear an advertisement.
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Topic: Why don't more bands and artists take advantage of RSS feeds?
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totally agree, i follow a ridiculous amount of bands, so if it wasnt for RSS feeds id be pretty lost. if only just simply using their myspace blog or any other free blog service, every artist should really take advantage of this ridiculously easy way to keep their fans informed.
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That's interesting because I too have subscribed to every myspace blog of every band that I am even remotely interested in. Not because I want to hang out and read blogs all day, but with hope that some will begin using it in a creative way, I would even welcome count downs to shows. There's just too many bands, too many people doing interesting things, to keep track otherwise. It is also too bad that is the only subscribable section of a myspace profile. It also too bad that bands rely on myspace the way they do. But I suppose that is for another post...
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yeah, youd think with all the update/subscription/stalker features that myspace is pushing these days, that there would at least be able to be notified when bands add shows to their pages. having RSS feeds for shows would be a nice addition as well.
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Is there an easy explanation of how to use RSS one of you could post? I like the Google home page, personally, and use RSS to add to it, but am not a huge RSS user. What would be some interesting ways for bands to use RSS?
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The easiest way that I can think of to explain RSS is that it will turn a frequently updated portion of a website into a feed. That feed is something to which a person can subscribe.
By subscribing to this feed, the subscriber will be made aware of the updates that occur within that portion of a website. The person who controls the feed can decide what that "awareness" will be.
For example, if I use Google Reader to subscribe to Band X's news feed, when I open Google reader it will display, in chronological order, the news that Band X has been updating.
In my opinion, this can be seen as a service provided to the fans. It is something that makes keeping on top of the happenings of a band easy, even passive, for a fan.
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RSS has a history of issues which have prevented it from being adopted widely. At one point there were nine different versions of RSS, and none of them were compatible with each other. Interesting story for geeks (e.g. me), but probably boring for everyone else. Wikipedia link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss#History.
Even though all that has since settled out, there are still some technical issues. Basically, RSS takes a bit of know-how to set-up, and not many web hosts provide support for it.
In the end, the work/reward ratio is generally not enough for most people.
Anyhow, in the grand scheme of things, there are a lot of basic items that bands should set up before they worry about RSS feeds - like having a website that isn't just a MySpace page. But this is a topic of conversation that should have its own thread.
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So, the MySpace thing is an interesting wrinkle in to the RSS subject as well. (full disclosure: Sam I'm a geek too), the RSS issue is interesting, and you're correct, sometimes the work/ reward ratio can be a little daunting.
But, I am convinced that things like the show listings from MySpace don't have a feed in order to force people to visit their site. That is, afterall, how they make they're money.
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And you'd be right, I think.
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