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