Let’s Help Hugh Hewitt Get RSS!
Hugh Hewitt: Great talk show host, but his blog lacks something. The one thing that would keep me coming back every day. The one thing that would get him a larger readership, and thus, more advertising revenue. And that one thing is:
An RSS feed.
Come on now, Hugh. If you wrote a book about blogs, you have to know what an RSS feed is. In case you somehow missed it in your research, an RSS feed is a file like this one. People can copy the link to this file into what’s called an RSS reader, such as BlogMatrix Jager. This program lets me know when you update your site and the first few words of what you say in each post. It’s a list of headlines that updates automatically.
The problem is that if your website doesn’t have RSS, people will forget to read it. I almost never remember to read your blog, because it doesn’t have RSS. If you installed RSS, I would instantly become a daily reader, and I’m sure I’m not the only one to think that way.
I understand that investigating how to install an RSS feed on… whatever arcane blogging software you use could be time consuming. You wonder, why should I, a nationally syndicated talk show host, bother about such trivial things as RSS?
To help provide you and your staff incentive to work on the project, I turn to the power of the blogosphere: I’m pledging five dollars for your tip jar if you install RSS, and I call on my fellow bloggers to make more pledges in the comment section of this post. Not only will your readership and influence expand, but so will the coffers of the Hewitt Treasury.
Please, for the love of Pete and all the other would-be RSS subscribers to your site, install RSS on your weblog!