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Does BusinessWeek think we are “Stupid” users?

Saturday, August 16th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

I’m not totally sure. But you can look for yourself.

Go to their website and try to add their RSS feed. Take a look at the HTML source code.

http://www.businessweek.com/search/rssinterstitial.html?target=www.businessweek.com/topStories/rss/topStories.rss?campaign_id=bw_extras

On Firefox, press a Control-U.

On IE, navigate to View -> Source.
Take a look at the HTML code. You will notice several class=”stupid” tags throughout the code. Might that be us? :)

One for PC Users. One for Mac Users. One for Yahoo users, etc… You get the idea.

<h5 class=”stupid”>For PC Users</h5>
<h5 class=”stupid”>For Mac Users</h5>

OK. So I might need an RSS reader to read this page, but does that make me a “stupid” user?

Are we all members of the class of “stupid” users?

Stupid people need to be told to “Click to subscribe“, I guess.

Other “stupid” people may opt to use “My Yahoo” which I find to be an OK RSS reader that I use for some feeds.

Some people have told me that I was “stupid” for using Microsoft Vista, but never for using a PC or a Mac.
BTW, Vista has gotten a little better over the last year or so after several updates.

But, I’m not sure what the BusinessWeek web developers have in mind here :)

I’m sure they will blame it on some “stupid” toolkit that they used to create their RSS feeds and pages.

Anyone want to venture a guess?

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