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September 13, 2004
Internet choking on RSS - film at 10
The past couple of days have seen quite a bit of discussion in the RSS world concerning the growing amount of RSS data being transferred over the Internet. Robert Scoble started off the heated discussion by posting about how MSDN was having problems paying for the bandwidth usage for their polled RSS feeds (which in itself is worth thinking about). The analysis on this is a no-brainer and basically boils down to the fact that RSS aggregators everywhere are polling RSS feeds for all they are worth ("give me my RSS fix please"). Some poll once an hour, some do it once a day and combined this leads to a "whole lot of polling going on". And our friend, the Internet, just wasn't designed for that sort of thing. Or maybe it was. At least it would seem that there are ways of routing round this problem and the main thing will be getting everyone to agree on the right way. But this seems to be a step in the right direction.
Posted by Matthew at September 13, 2004 08:15 AM