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January 21, 2004
Why RSS Isn't Ready for Prime Time
Dylan Greene shares his 10 reasons why RSS is not ready for prime time. I agree with most of them, but don't really care about things like wasting bandwidth. Think about it. Most of those who've been smart enough to figure out how to get RSS feeds are on broadband and could give two shakes about bandwidth. I also disagree that "reading" RSS requires too much work. Reading is the great part. I read 25 sites through RSS and it's the most time I could save in a day. I do think, however, that they're a bitch to find and subscribe to, and there are too many standards, as Dylan states. I wish that every site I likes had an RSS feed, but they don't... Dylan, you might also be incorrect on the number of posts that RSS readers can keep current with. NewsGator and BlogLines, both of which I've used (although I've switched to Bloglines simply because I don't have Outlook everywhere I go...) allow me to download as many RSS entries as I want. I just grabbed 250 entries from Scoble's blog. BTW, check out the RSS Winterfest today and tomorrow. Post a comment
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