The syndication model of RSS extended as a metaphor through the Web and lives in the ubiquitous orange square (a graphical approach originally deployed in the Firefox browser) familiar to bloggers and podcasters everywhere.
My first big splash on the internet came in 2004 when I was one of the first 30 podcasters in the world, hand-coding my RSS feed and speaking timidly into a microphone, broadcasting intimate thoughts to a global audience.