Not really interested in joining, but I definitely agree that some technologies get forgotten despite their merits.
Greg Young of the "event sourcing" crowd pointed out that RSS is natural way for event subscribers such as read model projections to subscribe to append-only event logs. Makes sense, but wouldn't have thought of it myself.
I think one reason this happens is that some technologies are less visible to the general public. RSS is not completely invisible, because a lot of browsers show an RSS icon when you visit a page that includes RSS feeds, but it's still subtle. Another example of a less visible technology would be the Semantic Web. A web page that you visit might be marked up semantically using RDFa or microdata, but the visitor could never know it unless they are looking for it.
Greg Young of the "event sourcing" crowd pointed out that RSS is natural way for event subscribers such as read model projections to subscribe to append-only event logs. Makes sense, but wouldn't have thought of it myself.
I think one reason this happens is that some technologies are less visible to the general public. RSS is not completely invisible, because a lot of browsers show an RSS icon when you visit a page that includes RSS feeds, but it's still subtle. Another example of a less visible technology would be the Semantic Web. A web page that you visit might be marked up semantically using RDFa or microdata, but the visitor could never know it unless they are looking for it.