Share RSS Awareness Day

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I want to say one thing before I start this post. The new Maxis commercial you see on the television; animated drawn on paper type objects, concept was from Common Craft. I wanted to say this out loud so everyone (hopefully) won’t be misled to believe it is an original concept. So back to RSS Awareness day…it actually falls on May 1, coincidentally is Labors Day.

This online started campaign is about informing the many other Internet users about RSS and how they can benefit from using it in their daily web activities. Before I started using an RSS reader, I always bookmarked blogs I read daily. Today, I still do bookmark blogs but I subscribe to my favorite blogs RSS feed for easier tracking of new posts. Not to mention, I get a sneak peek of each post title without having to load the blog.

So share the love of RSS readers and let more Malaysia Internet users know about RSS awareness day. And here’s a video by Common Craft.

There’s a more polished RSS in plain english version with clearer audio and video quality over on their blog. If you’d like to view other stuff they’ve done, you could view them on their Blip TV channel.

5 thoughts on “Share RSS Awareness Day”

  1. The misconception of anything being original isn’t new nowadays. No doubt, this concept or something similar has been recycled and reused in foreign countries ever so often.

    But I applaud that this concept actually do get to see the light of day. Most clients in Malaysia aren’t that open-minded to creative concepts like this.

    Happy Belated RSS Day!

    P.S. Mind if you add me on MSN? Cheers

  2. The actual commercial didn’t have anything which could prevent it from being banned on Malaysia air so it was alright. The more creative concepts sometimes involving racism or sex is the one which won’t make it into the light of the day.

    p.s: I’ve added you to my MSN. :)

  3. Isn’t really fair to label it as plagiarism as paper cut-out animation has been done to the death for ages. Common Craft might have similiar movements and base concept but Maxis executed it a lot better. (probably purpose and budget)

  4. Well, I wouldn’t really call it plagiarism though it might’ve sounded that way. New ideas come from existing concepts. And improved ideas come from a bettered concept. However, in this case you referenced the execution was better done.

    End of the day, my aim was to share where the concept could’ve been inspired from then stolen. :)

  5. RSS is a really useful tool to glance at the title or summary of blog posts. Have you subscribed to mine? :)

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