[FYI] Der Spindoktor fragt: Verstopfen RSS-Feeds das Netz?

["Axel H Horns" <axel.h.horns@gmx.net>]

[Muss man das wirklich ernstnehmen?  --AHH]

<http://www.spindoktor.de/2004_05_01_archiv.html#108343878170273319>

2004-05-01

Verstopfen RSS-Feeds das Netz? 

--- RSS-Feeds sind nützlich, können sie doch einen besseren Überblick 
über die explodierende Nachrichtenwelt im Netz und die Bloggosphäre 
schaffen. Auch der Spindoktor bietet mit Atom.xml einen 
entsprechenden Verschnitt an. Doch es wird befürchtet, dass die 
ganzen einzeln abgefragten Ströme das Netz verstopfen könnten: 
Aggregators, sometimes called newsreaders or RSS readers, are a 
hybrid of a Web browser and an e-mail program, allowing Web users to 
peruse hundreds of information sources, from Boston-based restaurant 
job listings to Taiwanese political blogs. The beauty of an 
aggregator is that it displays articles from hundreds of websites in 
one place, so the user doesn't have to pull up the sites 
individually. But some are wondering: What happens when everyone 
discovers the power of aggregators? Will the Web be able to handle 
it? In Internet boom-speak, will it scale? Already, aggregators have 
swamped some sites, slowing Web servers and eating up expensive 
bandwidth, according to bloggers and other Web publishers. The end 
may be near, unless something changes soon, said Gary Lawrence 
Murphy, whose Linux blog, TeledyN, has been overloaded. "Once all the 
covered wagons show up and an RSS reader is folded into Microsoft's 
Internet Explorer or Outlook, we're doomed," Murphy said.
# posted by sk : 21:09



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