Catching up on a backlog of podcasts over the weekend, I stumbled across an awesome conversation between Leo Laporte, Dave Winer, and Will Harris on the subject of RSS.

Dave Winer, a pioneer and a huge evangelist of RSS amongst many other things, gave a really nice and simple way to explain RSS to the layman: “The best way I’ve found to explain RSS to people is to say that it’s automated web-surfing… If you have a pattern to your browsing, then you can teach your computer how to do that - that’s what RSS does”.

But it only gets more interesting from there on as Will and Leo discuss the ‘ultimate RSS reader application’ and AideRSS comes out on top of the pile. You can listen to the abridged version in WMA format, or listen to the original podcast on TWiT website (AideRSS discussion ~38 minutes in).