In an address at Microsoft's annual CEO Summit, Bill Gates (painstakingly) explains blogging and RSS to the likes of Warren Buffett, Carly Fiorina, and Barry Diller:
Another new phenomenon that connects into this is one that started outside of the business space, more in the corporate or technical enthusiast space, a thing called blogging. And a standard around that that notifies you that something has changed called RSS…
...And so, what blogging and these notifications are about is that you make it very easy to write something that you can think of, like an e-mail, but it goes up onto a Web site. And then people who care about that get a little notification. And so, for example, if you care about dozens of people whenever they write about a certain topic, you can have that notification come into your Inbox and it will be in a different folder and so only when you're interested in browsing about that topic do you go in and follow those, and it doesn't interfere with your normal Inbox.
For the full text of the speech, visit Bill's page at Microsoft.
