DO YOU RSS?... I GUESS I SHOULD

Article from InfoWorld.

RSS growing pains
As a tireless booster of RSS, I’ve learned the liabilities of too much success

By Chad Dickerson
CTO Connection
July 16, 2004

These days, despite near-universal acclaim for the technology, I have a real love/hate relationship with RSS. The love part of the relationship derives from the profound changes in my information production and consumption habits during the past year and a half. During that time, I’ve been blogging and producing content with RSS. Whereas my e-mail client, MS Word, and Google used to rule my desktop, I now find myself using Bloglines, Feedster, and Technorati throughout the day and writing to my internal and external blogs using ecto. Although the plumbing is quite simple, I’m still fascinated by all the background pinging (as new Weblog content is posted) and the real-time indexing of fresh content. When Dave Sifry at Technorati reports that the median time from Weblog content posting until that content is available for search on Technorati is seven minutes, I see a paradigm shifting. Despite “only” being XML, RSS is the driving force fulfilling the Web’s original promise: making the Web useful in an exciting, real-time way. (full article)