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By the way, average users don't think RSS is the Web. Just cause Instant Messaging uses TCP/IP protocols, does that make it Web technologies? No. Most users see the Web as everything that comes to their browser.

I have a news flash for you - I'd guess that 90% + of the people using RSS not only know it's the web, but have a fairly decent grasp (from a technical standpoint) as to what RSS is. Heck, RSS simply hasn't gotten that widely exposed yet. Most developers I talk to have no idea what RSS is, and think a news aggregator is a tool for following usenet. Expand outside the tech arena, and RSS knowledge is virtually non-existant. I ask a fairly wide spectrum of people about RSS - most have no idea, some have maybe seen the little XML tag, and most of the ones who have seen it have no idea what it's for. Right now, RSS is in early adopter mode.