---
title: "New: ionRSS.com and Digital Web Article"
date: 2005-05-05
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# New: ionRSS.com and Digital Web Article

You know how Jude Law seemed to be in just about every movie released in Hollywood last year? Well on a smaller scale, my writing is being published on various sites across the Web currently. And no I’m not talking about those people who copy and paste my posts into their blogs!

## ionRSS.com

My new [Silicon Valley Watcher](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508060808/http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/) blog, called [ionRSS](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508060808/http://www.ionrss.com/) (eye on RSS, geddit?) is in beta mode right now. There are still some i’s to be dotted and t’s to be crossed, but it’s basically primed for action. The site’s tagline is *The Business of RSS*, which tells you all you need to know about the focus of the blog. I’ll be covering RSS over on [ionrss.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508060808/http://ionrss.com/) and continuing my focus on Web 2.0 on Read/Write Web. Where there is any crossover, I’ll cross-link.

p.s. bonus points if you can figure out the *other* pun of “ion” in an RSS sense. Hint: alternative RSS format…

## Digital Web Magazine Article: Web 2.0 for Designers

Also a new [Digital Web Magazine](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508060808/http://www.digital-web.com/) article that I co-authored with [Joshua Porter](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508060808/http://bokardo.com/) has just been published. Josh and I are going to be writing a column on Web 2.0 Design over the remainder of 2005. Our first article is entitled [Web 2.0 for Designers](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508060808/http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_2_for_designers/) and it introduces 6 key Web 2.0 trends that we see impacting the Web Design profession. I’d love to receive your feedback on it.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_ionrsscom_a.php))*